Margarita Civuncik
“What can history teach us? God save us so that it doesn’t happen again.”
Margarita escaped from Minsk ghetto with her baby daughter Liudmilla. She changed her name, forged her documents and passed herself off as a Russian, moving from village to village to escape detection. She arrived in Vilnius just as the Soviet flag was raised on Gediminas Castle, announcing the end of the war. She later remarried and worked for a newspaper. In her retirement, her favourite pastimes were crocheting and crossword puzzles. Her pride and joy was her large “multicultural” family; and she revelled in her many children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Margarita passed away on June 23, 2009.
“First of all, the most important thing is to respect each other. It doesn’t matter what nationality a person is. I am against genocide. It is terrible… people against people. In my family, we are a mixture. We have become an international family, Lithuanian, Russian, Polish…”
“What can history teach us? God save us so that it doesn’t happen again.”
Margarita escaped from Minsk ghetto with her baby daughter Liudmilla. She changed her name, forged her documents and passed herself off as a Russian, moving from village to village to escape detection. She arrived in Vilnius just as the Soviet flag was raised on Gediminas Castle, announcing the end of the war. She later remarried and worked for a newspaper. In her retirement, her favourite pastimes were crocheting and crossword puzzles. Her pride and joy was her large “multicultural” family; and she revelled in her many children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Margarita passed away on June 23, 2009.
“First of all, the most important thing is to respect each other. It doesn’t matter what nationality a person is. I am against genocide. It is terrible… people against people. In my family, we are a mixture. We have become an international family, Lithuanian, Russian, Polish…”
