Kęstutis Grigaliūnas. LITHUANIAN JEWS RETURNED FROM NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS

During the Second World War, many people left their places and never came back - by fighting, dying in concentration and extermination camps, being taken prisoner, sent to forced labor, fleeing adversity or looking for a better destiny. There were also those who returned - eager to find abandoned homes, families or what was left of them, and often found nothing. Also, those who returned are not always of their own free will and not necessarily where they would like. This exhibition by Kęstutis Grigaliūnas features the faces and episodes of the fate of Jews who returned to Lithuania at the end of the war. Most of these people - those who managed to survive the Holocaust after crossing the ghetto and concentration camps, a few others - found themselves outside the Soviet Union in different circumstances, returning from wartime captivity or forced labor.