Lithuanian partisans

On few occasions they were aided by Lithuanian partisans and regular units.

He was investigated for nine counts of repressions against the Lithuanian partisans.

Stanionis would also take any other photographs on demand; some survive of Lithuanian partisans.

It was used by Lithuanian partisans during the armed resistance against the Soviet presence, 1944-1953.

From the very start of the Lithuanian partisans war, the most important partisan districts were based around Kaunas.

Lithuanian partisans, the post-war resistance movement in Lithuania.

In a two-day pogrom, Lithuanian partisans set fire to all synagogues and burn down some 60 homes.

Historians say that some of the early Lithuanian partisans were fighters who sympathized with Nazism.

On March 14 Lithuanian partisans and German forces captured Šeduva.

He was heavily involved in suppression of the Lithuanian partisans, who fought against Soviet occupation of Lithuania.

In spring 1945, Ramanauskas joined the Lithuanian partisans who waged an armed guerrilla warfare against the Soviets.

The SS and Lithuanian partisans kill about 1,800 Jews, destroying another small ghetto in Kaunas.

The LLA became the first wave of the Lithuanian partisans, armed anti-Soviet guerrilla fighters.

Cvirka was the first writer to address the Lithuanian partisans - anti-Soviet guerrilla fighters - in the short story Pabučiavimas, one of his last works.

The Lithuanian partisans can refer to various irregular military units in different historical periods active in Lithuania against foreign invaders and occupiers:

When the Red Army regained control of Lithuania in summer 1944-January 1945, the Lithuanian partisans began an armed struggle against the second Soviet occupation.

The Occupation and Death Spheres showcase the brutal side the Soviet regime: mass deportations, suppression of the Lithuanian partisans, etc.

Modern Lithuanian nationalists stress anti-Soviet resistance, but some Lithuanian partisans, seen in Lithuania as heroes in the struggle against Soviet occupation.

In February 1949, the village was a meeting place of the commanders of the Lithuanian partisans, who established the Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters.

At the end of February the Lithuanian partisans, supported by German artillery, took Mažeikiai and Seda, and pursued Bolsheviks to Kuršėnai.

When the Red Army returned to Lithuania, Žemaitis joined the Lithuanian Freedom Army and the Lithuanian partisans, steadily rising to a position of leadership.

After the Minsk Offensive, Dushanski returned to Lithuania where he was assigned to the duties of suppression of the Lithuanian partisans, the armed anti-Soviet guerrilla fighters.

He chose codename Vanagas (Hawk) and joined partisan formations in southern Lithuania (Suvalkija and Dzūkija), which were most active among Lithuanian partisans.

On August 18, 1941 in what comes to be known as the "intellectuals' action," SS, police units, and Lithuanian partisans shoot hundreds of Jewish professionals at the Fourth Fort.