Travelling exhibitions
THE CHRONICLE OF VIOLENCE: Lithuania in 1939–1941
The travelling exhibition put on 2006 is devoted to the 65th anniversary of June 1941. On display are documents and photographs, which demonstrate under what circumstances Lithuania lost its independence, the beginning of the reprisals and the Sovietisation of the country. The exhibition highlights the dramatic events of Black June, when, in the course of several days, about 18,000 people, old people and children among them, were put on to cattle wagons and deported to Siberia.
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THE WAR AFTER THE WAR: The Armed Anti-Soviet Resistance in Lithuania 1944–1953
The travelling exhibition put on 2004 reflects Lithuania’s fight for freedom, the stages in the partisan movement, its military structure and its activities. The exhibits show the lives of the freedom fighters, of their families and of their supporters, and the losses. A separate stand shows the lives of members of the resistance movement and their families who were deported to Siberia.
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WE ARE ALIVE
This exhibition put on in 1999 is devoted to the armed resistance movement in Lithuania. The first four stands show how the partisan units formed and the efforts to bring together the joint resistance leadership. Other stands deal with the partisan districts. On display are photographs of the units’ leaders and fighters, and facsimiles of various publications, leaflets and cartoons ridiculing the Soviet authorities.