Memorial Exhibition of Deportee Dr. Dalia Grinkevičiūtė (1927–1987)

Contacts
Address: Eitvydžių g. 7, Laukuva, Šilalės rajonas.
Tel. (+370 ~ 449) 56 130.
Contact person – Aldona Šulskytė.

Information for Visitor

Opening hours:
admission to the exhibition is possible through advance registration only. The telephone number is +370-449-56130.

Exposition
The memorial exhibition of Dr. Dalia Grinkevičiūtė, deportee, is found in the room in which she lived from 1974 to 1987. She authored the book “Lietuviai prie Laptevų jūros” (“Lithuanians by the Laptevas Sea”). The museum features memorabilia of Dalia Grinkevičiūtė: her hand scripts, photographs, and personal items used in her daily life.

Biographical details
In June 1941 at the age of fourteen Dalia Grinkevičiūtė 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 Grinkevičiūtė 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 Grinkevičiūtė 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 “Pergalė” magazine, but only in 1988 after the death of Grinkevičiūtė . Her book “Lithuanians by the Laptevas Sea” was not published in Lithuania until 1997.