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Two remains of partisans sentenced to death and shot dead by Soviet occupiers were found and identified in the Vilnius Orphan Cemetery: Vytautas Miškinis-Viesulas, 33-year-old Chief of Staff of the Sartai District of the Vytautas District Bear Team (shot 1962) and the Resurrection District Prison, 35, the last partisan sentenced to death (shot 1963).
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In 2019, the remains of 34 partisans were hummed again at the Leipalingis Cemetery in Druskininkai Municipality, from which the remains of seven partisans and two supporters have already been identified, and the remains of three more are being identified.
16-year-old sponsor Alfonsas Bubnelis, 18-year-old liaison Vytautas Kauzonas, leader of the Šarūnas team from Dainava Vytenis paternity Petras Vilkelis-Barzdukas 39-year-old, supporters of Vytenis patriotism: Juozas Barkauskas-Vėjakas 21 years, 21 student from twelve-year-old Antanas Šerkšnas-Bijūnas, 31-year-old Bolius Sotnikas-Milžinas, as well as supporters of the Juozapavičius homeland of the Dainava district Šarūnas team: 19-year-old Petras Videika-Klevas and 25-year-old Vladas Amšiejus-Neris.
All these participants in the fight for freedom were killed in the parish of Leipalingis.
A total of 170 partisans and their supporters were killed in the parish, but only 34 of them were found, buried and re-exhumed two years ago to identify identities.
“The remains were hummed again after receiving requests from relatives to identify the dead. We searched the loved ones of the 170 dead and took their DNA samples. So far, this has allowed the identification of nine combatants from 34 re-corps. -humor, “said Eugenijus Peikštenis, senior adviser to the Commemorative Department of the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Center, at a press conference on Monday after the press conference.
According to him, the remains of the remaining fighters are still being searched in Leipaling.
According to Adas Jakubauskas, general director of the Center, the regeneration of partisan remains was carried out for the first time.
Four of the identified persons died on March 9, 1949, when the occupants discovered a bunker in the village of Norkūnai (partisans Bolius Sotnikas-Milžinas and Juozas Barkauskas-Vėjūnas died) and a bunker in the house of Ona Paliutienė in the village from Smališkė (from here to identify a partisan Petras Žakevičius-Tautmylis). From the badly damaged remains, it can be assumed that the MGB had thrown a grenade into the bunker at O. Paliutienė’s house.
On November 14, 1949, after agent smog organized a fictitious meeting in the Panara desert, partisans Vladas Amšiejus-Neris and Petras Videika-Klevas and two liaison officers, of whom Vytautas Kauzonas was identified, were murdered.
The partisan Antanas Šerkšnas-Bijūnas was assassinated in 1947 during an ambush organized by the Chekists at the junction of the villages of Dulgininkai and Valančiūnai.
The Chekists buried the remains of 16-year-old Alfonsas Bubnel, the youngest participant in the resistance, in the courtyard of the Leipalingis NKVD headquarters.
As A. Jakubauskas said during the press conference, a total of 20,000 people died in the struggles for freedom. partisans.
“The remains of the majority have not been found until now. Of the eight graves of the signatories of the Lithuanian Freedom Fighting Movement, only two have been found to this day. The remains of Bronius Liesis-Nakties were found. and buried there by Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas and (…) in Radviliškis ”, said the director of the center.
“We will no longer find Jonas Žemaitis-Vytautas, because when he was shot in the Butyrkai prison in Moscow, his remains were cremated and the ashes were buried in the Donská cemetery,” he added.
According to A. Jakubauskas, the remains of the partisans Juozas Vitkus-Kazimieraitis and Lionginas Baliukevičius-Dzūkas are expected to be found in the next year.
“The center is also looking for the remains of Juozas Lukša-Daumantas, but the searches are not easy, at the moment we do not want to publicize our diagrams, which we have drawn. (…) We are happy with each partisan encountered, because without ordinary efforts, there would be no glory for the commanders, ”he said.
This year the archaeological investigation will continue in the Orphanage Cemetery, not only will the remains not yet found in Leipaling be searched, but the remains already found will be identified.
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