Remains of Lithuania's last partisan discovered

  • 2019-06-27
  • LETA/TBT staff
The remains of Antanas Kraujelis-Siaubūnas, Lithuania's last partisan who was killed with a gun in his arms, have been found at the Orphans' Cemetery in Vilnius, the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania announced on June 19. The identity of the partisan, killed in 1965, was confirmed through genetic tests. Archaeologists had been looking for his remains for several decades. The research was organised by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania and led by Vilnius University archaeologist Gintautas Vėlius.
 
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