Sisters of Saint Elizabeth in Lithuania: The First Twenty Years (1924-1944)
Sisters of Saint Elizabeth in Lithuania: The First Twenty Years (1924-1944)

Summary/Abstract: The Sisters of Saint Elizabeth arrived in Lithuania in 1924. It was not easyfor the sisters coming from Karaliaučius to settle in Lithuania. They received helpfrom Jesuit monks with ties to Germany, as well as from individual Lithuanian intel-lectuals and patrons. The sisters worked sincerely, and during the Nazi occupation,they risked their lives to save Jews. The Soviet occupation, the Nazi regime, and thelater return of the Red Army with its inhumane atheistic ideology destroyed the es-tablished order. Some of the Elizabethan Sisters retreated to the West, while othersremained underground, never abandoning their vocation. During the occupations, thesisters were persecuted, their activities restricted, and, as a new wave of Soviet occu-pation approached, their work went underground.

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