Antanas Merkys

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Jewish citizens are arrested by the Lithuanian Home Guard, who collaborated with the German occupying forces, after the occupation of Lithuania by the German Wehrmacht in July 1941.

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Born	1887 • Lithuania
Died	1955 (aged 68) • Soviet Union
Title / Office	prime minister (1939-1940), Lithuania

Rolandas Paksas

president of Lithuania

Dalia Grybauskaitė

president of Lithuania

Valdas Adamkus

president of Lithuania

Antanas Smetona

president of Lithuania

Vincas Krėvė-Mickievičius

Lithuanian author

Kazys Grinius

Lithuanian statesman

Basanavičius, portrait by A. Varnas; in the Museum of History and Ethnography, Vilnius, Lithuania

Jonas Basanavičius

Lithuanian physician

Simanas Daukantas

Lithuanian historian

Mindaugas

ruler of Lithuania

Vincas Kudirka

Lithuanian patriot

Justas Paleckis

prime minister and president of Lithuania

Władysław II Jagiełło

king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania

Algirdas

grand duke of Lithuania

Vytautas the Great

Lithuanian leader

Elijah ben Solomon

Lithuanian-Jewish scholar

Senda Berenson

American educator

Kęstutis

duke of Lithuania

Mordecai Menahem Kaplan

American rabbi

Gediminas

grand duke of Lithuania

Svetlana Beriosova

British dancer

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