Adute  Adutė 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2700666B

  Author(s)

  Gervyte, Danguole

  City

  Kaunas 

  Country

  Lithuania 

  Language

  Lithuanian; English 

  ISBN

  9789986461999 

  Date of Publication

  2025 

  Publisher

  Artuma  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  327 

  Subject

  Biography / Memoirs

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

  Subject

  Literature

  Subject

  Religion

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Gervytė, Danguolė

  Publisher

  Artuma  

• Description

  Adutė Originally from the Kėdainiai region, Adelė Dirsytė – a German language teacher and author of the exile prayer book “Mary, save us” – died in exile in Khabarovsk in 1955. The pages of this album contain not only documented facts – dates, verdicts, interrogation protocols, witness recollections, Adelė’s letters and facsimiles, some of which have never been published before, but also her human experience, history of suffering, and spiritual experiences. The story of the great story is woven from the lives of ordinary people, which were not always as they dreamed. Adelė Dirsytė wanted to be a teacher, but not in exile; she longed to travel and see the world, but not to the east of the “great homeland”. Her life was made up of choices. During KGB interrogations, she signed a confession that she had written anti-Soviet articles. Perhaps she hoped to reduce her sentence, or perhaps she really thought for a moment that she should not have done so. Little is said about the dramatic end of her life: the loss of her mind at the end of her life testifies to her fragility, but no illness (whether physical or mental) is an obstacle to spiritual life, heroism, and even holiness. Adele's death also remains a mystery: is Adele really buried in the Khabarovsk hospital cemetery outside the city, which no one knows about and can find? Maybe she was tortured and thrown into the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, and her death certificate is just a cover to hide Soviet cruelty? We will not verify this in any surviving fragments of letters.