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Mr. Antanas Poskocimas; Lithuanian Youth Center, 5620 S. Claremont, Chicago, Illinois

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Mr. Antanas Poskocimas; Lithuanian Youth Center, 5620 S. Claremont, Chicago, Illinois

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Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-2a, interior of Antanas Poskocimas's home, with the wall in the dining room decorated with chapels carved by Mr. Poskocimas; such chapels were carved in Lithuania and fastened to trees along the wayside; 3, Mr. Poskocimas talking to Elena Bradunas in his bedroom; 4-7a, Mr. and Mrs. Poskocimas's bedroom, the cross on the table is about 3 feet high; the Madonna inside the wall chapel is miniature copy of the Madonna of Vilnius, a well-known shrine to all Lithuanians and Poles; on the dresser are pictures of the Poskocimas children; 8-9, Mr. Poskocimas in his living room; on the mantle is a candelabra made by Mr. Poskocimas as a gift for his boss on his retirement; 10-11, item carved by Mr. Poskocimas according to a Greek design he liked; 12a-17a, cross carved by Mr. Poskocimas in front of the Jesuit Fathers' Lithuanian Youth Center, 5620 S. Claremont; such chapels were carved in Lithuania and fastened to trees along the wayside; this cross is dedicated to the memory of an incident in the church of Kraziai in Lithuania in 1893 when Russian soldiers raided the village and slaughtered a great number of villagers who had taken refuge in the Kraziai church, Mr. Poskocimas’s mother was one of them and received a sword slash across her face but survived; in a project recording, Mr. Poskocimas tells the story of how his mother's wound opened "as if by a miracle" on the day hearings concerning the incident were taking place in Moscow, thousands of miles from where she was living, she did not know about the trial and only learned of the coincidence later; the recorded interview with Mr. Poskocimas, in Lithuanian, is presented at call numbers AFC 1981/004: AFS 20806a, AFS 20806b, AFS 20807a, AFS 20807b, AFS 20808a, AFS 20808b, and AFS 20809a; 18-27a, the coffee room in the Youth Center, part of the extension built in the 1970's; in 1977 a young Lithuanian American crystal cutter, Raimundas Lapsus (who came to America from Austria in 1972), decorated the light panels with Lithuanian folk art motifs, with colors that are primarily blue, red, and white; 28-31a, a collection of Lithuanian miniature crosses and chapel poles on permanent display at the Youth Center; 32-36, miniature crosses on display at the Lithuanian Jesuit Monastery located next to the Youth Center.

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01/01/1977
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chicago
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Library of Congress
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