Juozas Luksa: The life of a partisan
TitoloJuozas Luksa: The life of a partisan
Autore
Call number940.5318/0422
Numero oggetto08867g
Luogo di pubblicazionePrague, Czech Republic
Anno di pubblicazione
2013
Paginazionepp64-73
MaterialeArticle
ISBN9788087211793
NotesArticle from the book 'Lest we forget: memory of totalitarianism in Europe' pp64-73
Descrizione
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