• Issue 5, June 2000 • Volume 24 •

Why NATO Should Expand Into the Baltic Region

Regina Narušis
Lithuania releases the “Vilnius Statement”.

Lithuania’s Antigone

Kazys Saja, Introduced and translated by Irena Blekys
Soviet deportations remembered.

Saving Jewish Children

Sr. Ona Mikaila
Lithuanians reacted to the Nazis by rescuing Lithuanian Jewish citizens.

“LITHUANIA OF THE DEPORTEES”
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Her Last Letter: Ave Vita!

Danutė Lembertienė, Introduced by Vitalis Lembertas
A letter filled with hope for a bridge between America and Lithuania.

A Call to Lithuanian Youth

Andrius Čižiūnas
Youth of Lithuanian heritage urged to make themselves known.

The Lithuanian-American Community Election Results

Albinas Karnius
A new Board of Directors elected.

Departments. . .
PERSPECTIVES
CURRENT EVENTS

The Lithuanian Folk Dance Festival 2000

The Canadian and American Lithuanian Communities and the Lithuanian Folk Dance Institute are hosting and coordinating this splendid folk dance exhibition in Toronto, Canada at the Hershey Centre on Sunday July 2nd.
More details available in the March 2000 BRIDGES issue and at wwww.javlb.org.

On the cover:
The illustration comes from the front cover of Tremtinio Lietuva (The Lithuania of the Deportees) edited by Juozas Laurušas and illustrated by Romas Orentas in 1990. This poetry collection contains the work of many Siberian deportees’ writings — forever memorializing the little-known, tragic historical fact of the June deportations.

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