Greetings card embroidered on fabric. It is the work of Political Prisoner, Lidija Graudinaite. Dubravlag (Pot’ma, Mordovia). 1949. In the top right-hand corner is a symbolic representation of a red-green and yellow panel (the banned colours of the National Flag of Lithuania) surrounded by a ribbon...

Greetings card, embroidered on fabric. The work of the political prisoner Lidija Graudinaite. Dubravlag (Pot’ma, Mordovia). 1949. Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

An embroidered panel. 1950s. Made by Elena Ilginaite-Miežetienė while she was in exile in Krasnoyarsk Region. It is kept in the Priekule Museum of Exile and the Struggle for Freedom (Priekule, Lithuanian Republic). Photo December, 2010).

Embroidered panel called "Devushka za reshetkoi" [ “Girl Behind Bars”]. Late 1940s. Made by the political prisoner Petronele Aksamitauskaite (born 1923) in the Kengir Section of the StepLag. Priekule Museum of Exile and the Struggle for Freedom (Priekule, Lithuanian Republic). (Photo December, 2010)

An embroidered panel. It was made by Regina Beniušytė-Sterpeikienė Regina (born 1939), who was in exile in the Kezhemsk Region of Krasnoyarsk Province from 1948 to 1958. In the centre there is an embroidered text (translation from Lithuanian): “Youth goes by like a dream, but our memories will forever...

Embroidered pillow. The work of two unknown political prisoners. Dubravlag, Transit Camp Section No.18 (Mordovia). 1951. Given to political prisoner Romualdas Vasiliauskas. It is kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

Embroidered panel. 1950s. Zaigraevsk Region of the Buryat-Mongolsk ASSR. Made by Salomea Machenite while in exile. S. Panevezys Local History Museum, exhibition called “Resistance to the Soviet Occupation and Sajudis”. (Photo 2006).