Juozas Luksa: The life of a partisan
TitleJuozas Luksa: The life of a partisan
Author
Call number940.5318/0422
Object number08867g
Place of publicationPrague, Czech Republic
Year of publication
2013
Physical descriptionpp64-73
MaterialArticle
ISBN9788087211793
NotesArticle from the book 'Lest we forget: memory of totalitarianism in Europe' pp64-73
Description
Juozas Luksa was born into a farming family in southern Lithuania in 1921. After Lithuania became incorporated into the Soviet Union, he joined the anti-Soviet resistance movement. In 1947 he crossed the Iron Curtain to seek support for Lithuanian independence abroad. In 1950 he went back to Lithuania where he was killed by the Soviet security forces in 1951