Exhibitions
Virtual exhibitions about his life, his family’s exile and his memory.
His life, his family’s fate and his memory.
Three online exhibitions with original photographs, letters and archive files. They open in a new window and are in Lithuanian.
61 chapters“Not one step from my land” (LT)
The colonel’s whole life, from his childhood in Tirkšliai to his death in 1946. Photographs from the family, museums and archives with detailed captions, letters and documents, arranged in chronological order.
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Exile fileThe family’s exile (LT)
What happened to his wife Genovaitė and the children after the commander’s death: arrest, deportation to the Irkutsk region in 1948, return in 1956 and restrictions in Lithuania. The exhibition was prepared from the documents of the exile file by Povilas Girdenis.
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Armed forces30 years of the Colonel Juozas Vitkus Engineering Battalion (LT)
The history of the engineering battalion of the Lithuanian Armed Forces since 1992. In 1999 the battalion was named after Colonel Juozas Vitkus – before the war he himself had headed the technical section of the Pioneer Battalion.
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