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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).

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A carved wooden box. First half of the 1950s. It was made by Piatras-Kazis Ilgunas (born 1918), a political prisoner in UkhtIzhemLag (Komi ASSR) as a present for another political prisoner Aleksandra Bogusaite (1915-1986), who was in exile in Spassk Settlement, Karaganda oblast'. Symbols of Lithuanian...

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Museum of Resistance and Deportation / Druskininkų rezistencijos ir tremties muziejus

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