Marcelė Kubiliūtė

Marcelė Kubiliūtė (July 28, 1898, Tindžiuliai, now in Rokiškis district municipality, Lithuania – June 13, 1963, Vilnius), was a Lithuanian public figure, active in press, education and military areas. She is the only Lithuanian woman awarded all major Lithuanian orders.[1][2]

After the second Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1944, Kubiliūtė remained working in a library. On August 17, 1944 she was arrested by NKVD. For nine months, she was continuously interrogated, held in the KGB cellars starving. Later she was transferred to Lukiškės Prison. On July 7, 1946, Special Council of the NKVD sentenced her to 5 years in exile. Till 1949 she lived in exile in Tyumen, later in Akmola Region. After the expiration of the time of exile on September 30, Kubiliūtė departed to Lithuania where she was sheltered by Jonas Biliūnas' widow, Julija Biliūnienė. However, the tuberculosis acquired in exile has undermined health. Kubiliūtė was buried in the Rasos Cemetery next to the Lithuanian volunteers, whom she herself with her friend Elžbieta Matulionytė buried in 1920.[3]

Decorations
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gollark: They probably run on anomalous physics somehow. SCP-5128 and all.
gollark: Maybe SRAs are the *real* SCP-2950.
gollark: Also, Prometheus Labs best GoI.
gollark: Some people say they're a Prometheus Labs product, others say they're some weird SCP where their inventor was wiped out by a temporal change but the SRAs kept existing, some say they were invented in the 1800s, some in the 1900s or early 2000s, and some say they run on enslaved reality benders.

References
  1. "Marcelė Kubiliūtė" by Nastazija Kairiūkštytė, in Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia (in Lithuanian)
  2. "The Path of the Lithuanian Patriot Marcelė Kubiliūtė", Antanas Tyla, Pasaulio lietuvis, 2006, no. 2, reprinted in Aušra, 2006, no. 3 (in Lithuanian)
  3. Tyla, Antanas (2006). Lietuvos patriotės Marcelės Kubiliūtės kelias. Pasaulio lietuvis.
  • "Dek, širdie, ant amžinojo aukuro...": Marcelės Kubiliūtės 100-sioms gimimo metinėms (1898 07 28 – 1963 06 13) paminėti, ed. Nastazija Kairiūkštytė, Lithuanian Institute of History, Vilnius, 1999


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