June Events of 2011: the Year of Remembrance of Defence of Freedom and Great Losses and the Victims of the Holocaust in Lithuania 

Thursday, 2 June 2011

16.00

Opening of the exhibition Returns
National Museum of Lithuania

Photography exhibition Expedition on the Lena River 1989 by Raimondas Urbakavičius

Presentation of Madonna of Korbik and demonstration of the film Journey to Korbik 2010

Wednesday, 8 June 2011

14.00

Opening of the watercolour exhibition in tribute to deportee Pranciškus Porutis
Lobby of Building III of the Seimas*

Saturday, 11 June 2011

12.00

Commemoration of the first mass deportations at the hut-yurt of the Laptev Sea exiles
Open Air Museum of Lithuania in Rumšiškės

**Interpretation provided

Sunday, 12 June 2011

18.00

Opening of the open-air travelling exhibition Rainiai Tragedy: Memory Lives On in tribute to the victims of Rainiai massacre
Vinco Kudirkos Square, Vilnius

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

8.30

Opening of the exhibitions*:

Painting exhibition Lithuanians in the Arctic by Gintautas Martynaitis and Jūratė Bičiūnaitė, members of the brotherhood of the Laptev Sea exiles
Exhibition Gallery of the Seimas

Exhibition of the saints’ statues …Ordeals Inspire … by deportee Ričardas Vaicekauskas
Lobby of Building I of the Seimas

Photography exhibition in commemoration of the great losses
Lobby of Building I of the Seimas

10.00

Solemn commemoration dedicated to the Year of Remembrance of Defence of Freedom and Great Losses
March 11 Hall of the Seimas*

**Interpretation provided

11.00

Opening of the commemorative plaque
Vilnius Railway Station

12.00

State flag hoisting ceremony
Independence Square, Vilnius

**Interpretation provided

12.30-15.00

Open hours at the Seimas; demonstration of video material against musical background

12.30

Ceremony in honour of the victims of the Soviet occupation, genocide and repressions
Monuments to political prisoners and deportees in Aukų Street against the Lukiškių Square, Vilnius

Schoolchildren’s painting exhibition I Paint History initiated by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania
Aukų Street, Vilnius

Vilnius schoolchildren’s civil initiative Message to the Homeland
Lukiškių Square, Vilnius
Organiser: International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Regimes in Lithuania

14.00

Commemorative ceremony
Memorial at the railway station in Naujoji Vilnia

**Interpretation provided

16.00

Commemorative concert
Courtyard of the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania
17/1 Didžioji Street

16.30

Presentation of the installation 1941 and the film 30 461 by Kęstutis Grigaliūnas
Vilnius gallery “Kairė-Dešinė”
3 Latako Street

17.30

Holy Mass
Vilnius Arch-Cathedral Basilica

19.00

Requiem – to Those Fallen for Freedom by Vidmantas Bartulis
Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre

Opening of commemorative plaques
Anykščiai (12.00), Kėdainiai (17.00), Rokiškis (11.00), Rūdiškiai (16.30), Šilutė (18.00) Railway Stations

Open hours at the Museum of Genocide Victims
2a Aukų Street, Vilnius
14-18 June 2011 at 10.00-18.00; 19 June 2011 at 10.00-17.00
Free guided tours and documentary reviews (please find the detailed programme on the website of the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania)

Visiting of the chapel-columbarium in the Memorial Complex of the Tuskulėnai Peace Park
1F Žirmūnų Street, Vilnius
14-17 June 2011 at 10.00-17.00

Wednesday, 15 June 2011

10.30

Honouring of the border guard Col. Aleksandras Barauskas, first victim of the Soviet occupation killed on 15 June 1940
Ūta Village, Varėna District

13.00

Opening of the exhibition of books on exile; presentation of the recent publications by the publishing house Naujasis Lankas
Lobby of Building I of the Seimas

Thursday, 16 June 2011

16.00

Honouring of Vilnius residents shot by the Nazis in July 1941 and unveiling of the monument to the victims
Titnago Street

Saturday, 18 June 2011 

11.00

Convention of former political prisoners of the Dalstroj forced labour camps (Kolyma, Chukotka, Yakutia)
Rumšiškės Cultural Centre in Rumšiškės, Kaišiadoriai District

Tuesday, 21 June 2011

8.00

Holy Mass for the victims of the June Uprising of 1941
St. Casimir Chapel of Vilnius Arch-Cathedral Basilica

9.00

Honouring of the volunteer soldiers, members of Vilnius Military Headquarters of the Lithuanian Activist Front, shot in Gorky prison
Commemorative plaque at Vilnius Military Headquarters, 29 Gedimino Ave, Vilnius

10.00

Scientific conference dedicated to the 70^th anniversary of the June Uprising of 1941
Lithuanian Academy of Sciences

11.00

Guided tour of the Faculty of Chemical Technology of Kaunas University of Technology to introduce to the personalities and activities of Col. Juozas Vėbra and Col. Adolfas Damušis, leaders of the June Uprising of 1941
19 Radvilėnų Road, Kaunas

14.00

Transfer from the Cathedral Square to the Rasos Cemetery

15.00

Ceremony in tribute to the participants of the June Uprising and all those fallen for Lithuania’s freedom and independence
Rasos Cemetary

15.00

Opening of the exhibition 70^th Anniversary of the June Uprising
Military Museum of Vytautas the Great, Kaunas

Wednesday, 22 June 2011

17.00

First night of the film Uprising of the Subjugated
Cinema theatre “Pasaka”, 4/3 Šv. Ignoto Street, Vilnius
Registration by e-mail: [email protected]

17.30

Honouring of the victims massacred in Lietūkis garage yard
1 Miško Street, Kaunas

18.00

Commemoration of the 70^th Anniversary of the June Uprising
Commemorative cross to the participants of the June Uprising in Aleksotas, Kaunas

Thursday, 23 June 2011

Vilnius

10.00-17.00

Visiting of the chapel-columbarium in the Memorial Complex of the Tuskulėnai Peace Park
1F Žirmūnų Street, Vilnius

10.00-17.00

Kaunas

10.00

Holy Mass
St. Michael the Archangel (Garrison) Church, Kaunas

11.00

Commemoration of the Uprising of 22-28 June 1941 and unveiling of the renovated monument to the Uprising victims
Kaunas Old Cemetery, Vytauto Avenue

15.30

Demonstration of the film Uprising of the Subjugated
Mykolas Žilinskas Art Gallery, 12 Independence Square, Kaunas
Registration by e-mail: [email protected]

Rainiai and Telšiai

11.00

Revelation mysteries: historical conference and exhibition Chronicle of Violence: Lithuania in 1939-1941
Žemaičiai Museum “Alka”, Telšiai

14.00

Honouring of the Rainiai martyrs and joint prayer
Telšiai Old Cemetery

15.00

Passion mysteries: poetic oratorio The Day When the Time Has Come to Cry performed by the boys’ chorus
At the former Telšiai prison

16.00

Symbolic live chain of the young people Unfading Memory – Testimony to Life from Telšiai prison to Rainiai Chapel
March to Rainiai Chapel accompanied by psalm singing
Ceremony of honouring the martyrs Crown of Thorn in Rainiai Golgotha; flower laying
Rainiai grove
**Interpretation provided

19.00

Glorious mysteries
Holy Mass at Rainiai Chapel

21.00

Concert To Bless a Peaceful Heart

Sunday, 26 June 2011

15.00

Honouring of the prisoners and staff of Pravieniškės prison shot to death by the Soviet army 70 years ago
Pravieniškės II (Kaišiadoriai Dictrict), at the cros

Wednesday-Thursday, 29-30 June 2011

10.00

International conference Baltic States at the Outbreak of the USSR-German War in 1941
March 11 Hall of the Seimas*
**Interpretation provided

Friday, 1 July

Honouring of the victims
Chervyen, Republic of Belarus

EXHIBITIONS

February to December 2011

Exhibition by artist Antanas Kmieliauskas
Building II of the Seimas

14 May – 4 September 2011

Photography exhibition Behind the Ural, End of the Earth…
Conference Hall of the Museum of Genocide Victims

15 May 2011 – 15 September 2011

Artistic exhibition by deportee Algis Augustaitis
Gallery connecting Buildings I and II of the Seimas*

June 2011

Travelling exhibition Behind the Ural, End of the Earth… on Lithuania’s citizens in exile and forced labour camps
Brussels and the Memorial Complex of the Tuskulėnai Peace Park

6-27 June 2011

Drawing exhibition Lithuanians in the Arctic by Gintautas Martynaitis and Jūratė Bičiūnaitė, members of the brotherhood of the Laptev Sea exiles
Exhibition Gallery of the Seimas*

Exhibition of the saints’ statues …Ordeals Inspire … by deportee Ričardas Vaicekauskas
Lobby of Building I of the Seimas*

Photography exhibition Lithuania in Exile by Juozas Kazlauskas
Building II of the Seimas

Photography exhibition
Lobby of Building I of the Seimas*

6 June 2011 – 4 July 2011

Watercolour exhibition in tribute to deportee Pranciškus Porutis
Lobby of Building III of the Seimas*

12-27 June 2011

Open-air travelling exhibition Rainiai Tragedy: Memory Lives On in tribute to the victims of Rainiai massacre
Vinco Kudirkos Square, Vilnius
Organiser: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

14-30 June 2011

Travelling document exhibition 2011 – the Year of Historical Memory dedicated to the defence of freedom and great losses of 1941 and 1991 as well as the 20th anniversary of the international recognition of the state of Lithuania
January 13 Memorial
Organiser: Lithuanian Central State Archive

20-24 June 2011

Travelling exhibition Under the alien sky: Lithuanian Citizens in Forced Labour Camps and Exile in 1940-1958
Yehudi Menuhin Hall, European Parliament, Brussels
Opening on 21 June 2011
Organiser: Museum of Genocide Victims