Letters from the Sukys family

Juozas Sukys with his three children, Juozukas, Aleksyte and Aldute in Siberia. Letter was written by Aldute to her aunt in Chicago.

In 1948 the Sukys family was deported from Lithuania to the Manski district in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia. In this letter Aldute thanks her aunt for a package in which she received shoes, her brother, a wallet, and her sister a fountain pen. She is proud to be the second best student in the second grade. Continue Reading →