“It simply came to our notice then. He was at home with me, infected with fighting. I thought a simple cold was a positive test, ”A. Jakavonytė told BNS.
According to her, Dad died while being treated at the hospital, and doctors marveled at his perseverance.
He was recently treated at COPID-19 in Santara clinics.
The national broadcaster LRT was the first to announce the death of J. Jakavonis-Tiger on Tuesday.
J. Jakavonis-Tigras, born in the village of Kasčiūnai in the Varėna area, was twenty years old, and in the autumn of 1945, together with other partisans, he set up the headquarters of the partisan staff of the Merkys team at the parents’ homestead.
In 1945–1946, Juozas Vitkus-Kazimieraitis, the partisan commander of Southern Lithuania, hid and worked with A. Ramanauskas-Vanagas, the commander of the Merkys team. The partisan newspaper Laisvės varpas was published here.
J. Jakavonis-Tigras was the staff liaison officer.
In 1946 he was deported to Siberia and returned to Lithuania 13 years later.
After Lithuania regained its independence, J. Jakavonis-Tiger was awarded the 3rd degree Order of the Vytis Cross in 1998, and in 2000 he was awarded the Volunteer Medal of the Creators of the Lithuanian Armed Forces.
J. Jakavonis-Tigras and other partisans were awarded the Freedom Prize by the Seimas on December 4, 2018, this year he also received the prize of the partisan leader A. Ramanauskas-Vanags.
An active partisan war for the restoration of Lithuania’s independence took place in 1944–1953. About 50,000 people fought with the Soviet occupation in Lithuania in the post-war years. partisans, over 20 thousand. partisans and their supporters were killed.
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