MEMORIAL
EXHIBITION OF DEPORTEE
DR. DALIA GRINKEVICIUTE (1927-1987)
Address
Eitvydziai street 7, Laukuva,
Silalë region.
Tel. +370-449-56130.
The museum supervisor is Aldona Sulskyte.
Hours of
operation
Admission to the exhibition is
possible through advance registration only. The telephone number is
+370-449-56130.
Exposition
The memorial exhibition of Dr.
Dalia Grinkeviciute, deportee, is found in the room in which she lived
from 1974 to 1987. She authored the book “Lietuviai prie Laptevu juros”
(“Lithuanians by the Laptevas Sea”). The museum features memorabilia of
Dalia Grinkeviciute: her hand scripts, photographs, and personal items
used in her daily life.
Biographical details
In June 1941 at the age of
fourteen Dalia Grinkeviciute was deported to northern Siberia near the
branches of the river Lena. In 1949 she fled the Siberian region and
returned to Lithuania, but was arrested once more and imprisoned in a
camp for three years. After her release, she was once again exiled from
Lithuania. Not taking her difficulties into consideration, Dalia
Grinkeviciute finished medical school abroad and on returning to
Lithuania worked in the clinic in Laukuva. In 1974 the KGB prohibited
her from practicing medicine and expelled her from her living quarters
at the clinic.
In her memoir articles Grinkeviciute described the sufferings and
difficulties she experienced in exile. Her memoirs were published for
the first time in 1979 in the Russian underground newspaper “Паметь”
(Remembrance) and already in 1981 they were published in the United
States. The memoirs were published in Lithuania in “Pergale” magazine,
but only in 1988 after the death of Grinkeviciute. Her book “Lithuanians
by the Laptevas Sea” was not published in Lithuania until 1997.
