THE ALLEY OF THE RIGHTEOUS: JONAS, ZOSĖ, VLADAS, ROZALIJA, PRANAS, JANINA DAUGEVIČIAI |
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Published: 2021-09-22
JONAS DAUGEVIČIUS
1911–1998
ZOSĖ DAUGEVIČIENĖ
1913–1995
VLADAS DAUGEVIČIUS
1913–1953
ROZALIJA DAUGEVIČIENĖ
1885–1971
PRANAS DAUGEVIČIUS
1925–1996
JANINA DAUGEVIČIŪTĖ (RUOŠKIENĖ)
1926–2014
If I needed something, or just to talk, I went to the Daugevičius home at night to see them, and they often visited us and also offered advice and help. Without their first aid in environment and without their constant support the entire period of our hiding in the woods, we surely would have died.
Moshe Kukliansky
In February 1943, Saulius Kukliansky and his children Moshe, Ana and Samuel fled extermination in the Grodno Ghetto and returned to Lithuania hoping to find shelter in the area around their native Veisiejai. The first person the refugees met after crossing the River Nemunas to the Lithuanian village of Sventijanskas was Vladas Daugevičius. Moshe Kukliansky remembers: ‘Vladas said he was sorry about what had been done to the Jews, that he wanted to help us, brought us flitch and bread, and suggested we spend the night in his stable. We enthusiastically agreed.’ The Kuklianskys hid in the Daugevičius’ potato cellar for several days until the brothers Jonas and Vladas Daugevičius built their first hideout in the forest, a carefully screened pit; they took the Kuklianskys there and told them about the plan. They regularly visited their wards and brought them food. Later, the residents of other surrounding villages also helped the Kuklianskys, but the Daugevičius family were the first to render vital aid to the Kuklianskys in February 1943 and took care of them as they hid in forest dugouts until the very end of the war in Lithuania.
From: Whosoever saves a single life, saves an entire universe
Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History, Vilnius, 2019
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