Museum exhibit /Postcard made out of birch-bark.
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A postcard made out of birch-bark. It is a letter from Antanas Baniulis (1892-1945), a political prisoner, from the camp in Reshoty (Post Box 235/5), Krasnoyarsk krai. It is dated 18.05.1943 and addressed to his daughter, Dana Baniulytė (born 1924), who was in exile in the settlement Kazachii, Ust’-Iansk Region of the Yakutsk ASSR. The stamp of the military censor is on the envelope, and there are sections that have been deleted by the censor. It is kept in the Museum of the Victims of Genocide (Vilnius, Lithuanian Republic). It was transferred from the Centre for the Study of Genocide and Resistance in 2007. (Photo: August, 2005). 
 
 
 
 
Registration number in museum acquisition book TR424 (inv. No.2004)
 
SourceTransferred from the Centre for the Study of Genocide and Resistance in 2007.
 
Date of acquisition1997
 
Date and place of creation18.05.1943, Post Box 235/5, Reshota Station. Krasnoyarsk krai.
 
Years and places of existence in subject-related function1940s - 1950s, settlement Kazachii, Ust’-Iansk Region of the Yakutsk ASSR
 
Materials
 
Description of exhibitReceiver’s address: “YaASSR/Ustyanskii raen (sic!)/Romansir (?) Settlement/
Oberchann [Oberchank?] Yurii A. /Dani Baniulyte”. Sender’s address: “Ot A.A. Baniulis / “Krasnoyarsk Railway/ Resheta Station/Post Box No.235/5”. Post-marks: Sender’s – 3.7.1943, Reshota, Krasnoyar...”;
Receiver’s: “Kazach'e YaASSR 19.12.(?)...” [illegible]. Military Censor’s Stamp: “Inspected /by Military Censor /Krasnoyarsk/123 [128? Illegible].
The text of the letter reads: “My Dear Ones, / I have received one letter from you. / Petkevichi [Petkevicha?] we have no [2 words deleted and “had no” are written in over the top:] [we] were lucky / to another place. [The Censor’s deletion is approximately two lines of text] [...] The one who gets parcels / has a good life, he can have / tobacco [a word is deleted] or work. In exchange for tobacco [1 word unreadable – I will manage?] to survive. I think that for you / it is of no importance. Write what work / you are working at (sic). A. Baniulis.
 
Detailed annotationA postcard made out of birch-bark. It is a letter from Antanas Baniulis (1892-1945), a political prisoner, written in one of the camp sections of the KrasLag (Post Box 235/5) at Reshoty Station in the Nizhneingash Region of Krasnoyarsk krai. The post-card is dated 18.05.194, it is postmarked 03.07.1943. It is addressed to his daughter, Dana Baniulytė (born 1924), who was in exile in the settlement Kazachii, Ust’-Iansk Region of the Yakutsk ASSR. The stamp of the military censor is on the envelope, and there are sections that have been deleted by the censor.
Antanas Baniulis, who lived in the Rokishk uezd of Lithuania, was arrested on 14 June 1941 and sent to a camp at Reshoty Station, Krasnoyarsk krai. His family – his wife, Mariona (1899-1985) and his daughter Dana (born 1924) were deported to the Altai Region on the same day; in 1942 there were sent to Yakutia. A. Baniulis died in the camp in April 1945. His wife and daughter were released from the Special Settlement in 1954 and returned to Lithuania in 1956.
 
PersonsBaniulienė Mariona, Wife, addressee of the letter
 
PersonsBaniulis Antanas, Author of the letter
 
PersonsBaniulytė Dana, Daughter, addressee of the letter
 
Web page?Yes
 
 
Museum exhibit /Postcard made out of birch-bark.