Lietuviai gestapo kalėjimuose
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translation: Lithuanians in Gestapo Prisons
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The memoirs of Gabrielius Zemkalnis (1929–2017) tell the story of the arrest and imprisonment of a fifteen-year-old resistance fighter, a student of Kaunas “Ausra” Boys’ Gymnasium, first in Kaunas and later in German prisons. Written in 1944–1945, the text describes in detail the repressive actions of the Nazi German occupation authorities against Lithuanian resistance fighters – 27 Lithuanians arrested by the Gestapo, brutally interrogated and imprisoned in inhumane conditions. The book is supplemented by previously unpublished transcripts of conversations with Lithuanian political prisoners who were imprisoned in German prisons in Landsberg-Warthe and Bayreuth (1944–1945), as well as several years of correspondence between V. Landsbergis-Zemkalnis and Jadvyga Virsiliene, the mother of the first Lithuanian to die in a German prison, Aleksandras Virsila. The book is supplemented by several appendices: Adolfas Damusis's answers to the questions of the court of honor of the Union of Former Political Prisoners of the Lithuanian Anti-Nazi Resistance, detailed information about some of the individuals mentioned in Zemkalnis's memoirs, illustrations, and an index of names and place names.
