„Pasauliui reikėjo parodyti“: Lietuvos (antinacinės) rezistencijos politinių kalinių sąjungos veikla
Volume 2023, Issue 2 (2023): Lietuvos istorijos metraštis 2023 metai 2, pp. 149–162
Pub. online: 22 December 2023
Type: Article
Open Access
Open Access
Published
22 December 2023
22 December 2023
Abstract
The article focuses on the activities of the Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners of the Anti-Nazi Resistance in Germany and the USA, an organisation that has not been studied in the historiography so far. It was founded in 1946 to care for the repressed participants of the
anti-Nazi resistance and their families but it went beyond the narrow boundaries of humanitarian aid to its members and became involved in the anti-Soviet struggle of the Lithuanian diaspora. In 1948 and 1952, the word ‘anti-Nazi’ was dropped from its name. The organisation united the Lithuanians repressed by the Nazi and Soviet regimes. The article analyses the circumstances of the founding of the union, its aspirations and achievements, and the reasons for its changing identity.