A carved wooden box. First half of the 1950s. It was made by Piatras-Kazis Ilgunas, a political prisoner in UkhtIzhemLag (Komi ASSR) as a present for another political prisoner, Aleksandra Bogusaite. Museum of Resistance and Deportation (Druskininkai). (Photograph 2008).
Box in which accessories for saying underground Mass were kept. The Services were conducted by a priest, Juozas Zdebskis. Zdebskis was one of the founders of the “Chronicle of the Lithuanian Catholic Church” and of the Catholic Committee for the Defence of the Rights of the Faithful. Museum of the...
An ebonite capsule for the preservation and transfer of a “ksiva” (secret note). Made in 1985 by the political prisoner G. Z. Isaev for the political prisoner R. B. Evdokimov. Camp VS 389/36 (Perm oblast’). Photo 06.10.2004.
Journal “Rūpintojelis”(“The Mourning Christ”) 1989. No.25. An illegal hand-made religious journal from Lithuania. The print-run was produced on an “Era” (rotary printer). Museum of the History of the Kaunas Diocese (branch of the Kaunas Municipal Museum). (Photo 2008).
One of the milk-churns used to hide the archive of the Central Leadership of the Union of Fighters for the Freedom of Lithuania (Lietuvos Laisvės Kovos Sajũdis) was hidden. This Union was the leading underground organization of the anti-Nazi and anti-Soviet Resistance in Lithuania in the 1940s. The...
Newspaper “Svobodnoe slovo” [“Free Speech”], an underground edition produced in Russian by the Lithuanian Resistance. No.5. June, 1950. Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic). (Photo 2005)
Snow shoes on stilts - a device allowing the user to walk on the snow and not leave any traces. It was used by partisans when they returned to their bunker, to avoid revealing its location. Used between the end of the 1940s and the beginning of the 1950s. It is kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance...
Typewriter "Mercedes". It was used by the Sisters of the Congregation of the Holy Family and the Congregation of the Holy Eucharist in the 1970s and 1980s for duplicating editions of “The Chronicle of the Lithuanian Catholic Church”. It is kept in the Museum of the History of the Kaunas Diocese (branch...
Typewriter “Erika”. Belonged to Inna Aronovna Shikheeva . In the 1970s and 1980s she used it for typing out “samizdat” documents, including “The Chronicle of Current Events”. Photo 06.10.2004.
Typewriter “Erika” . 1970s - 1980s. It belonged to the priest Sigitas Tamkevičius and was used for the preparation and duplicating of editions of “The Chronicle of the Lithuanian Catholic Church”. The typewriter was adapted for the rapid changing of the script mechanism . After the arrest of S. Tamkevičius...
A “ksiva” (secret note) containing a chronicle for 1985 of camp VS 389/36, compiled by Rostislav Borisovich Evdokimov (village of Kuchino in the Chusovskii region of Perm oblast’), 1985. Photo 06.10.2004.
Album (front cover). First half of the 1950s. It was made by Piatras-Kazis Ilgunas (born 1918), a political prisoner in the UkhtIzhemLag (Komi ASSR) as a gift for Aleksandra Bogusaite. Museum of Resistance and Deportation (Druskininkai, Lithuanian Republic). Photo 24.08.2008
