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Steponas Darius (1907) and Stasys Girėnas (1910) were Lithuanian pilots, emigrants to the United States, who made a significant flight in the history of world aviation. On July 15, 1933, they flew across the Atlantic Ocean, covering a distance of 3,984 miles (6,411 kilometers) without landing, in 37 hours and 11 minutes (107.1 mph). In terms of comparison, as far as the distance of non-stop flights was concerned, their result ranked second only to that of Russell Boardman and John Polando, and ranked fourth in terms of duration of flight at the time. Although Darius and Girenas did not have navigational equipment and flew under unfavorable weather conditions, the flight was one of the most precise in aviation history. It equaled, and in some aspects surpassed, Charles Lindbergh's classic flight. Lituanica also carried the first Transtlantic air mail consignment in history.
Riga (Latvia)
USA
Moscow and Saint Petersburg (Russian empire
Russia
Brazil
Warsaw
Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay,
Colombia, Venezuela
Uruguay
Argentina
United Lithuanian Relief Fund of America did many efforts that USA government would introduce an immigration law and 205 000 people from DP camps could
immigrate into USA. Some of
the people from DP camps
emigrated to South America,
Australia, Africa.
A displaced persons camp or DP camp is a temporary facility for displaced persons threatened into forced migration. The term is mainly used for camps established after World War II in West Germany and in Austria, as well as in the United Kingdom, primarily for refugees from Eastern Europe and for the former inmates of the Nazi German concentration camps. Even two years after the end of World War II in Europe, some 850,000 people still lived in DP camps across Western Europe, among them Armenians, Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Yugoslavs, Greeks, Russians, Ukrainians and Czechoslovaks.
60.000 people from Lithuania moved to Germany seeking safer asylum.
In 1940 June 15th Lithuania was occupied by Red Army. Without waiting long, Soviets started to organize mass deportations, as they say – do some cleaning.
1941 June 14-18 first mass deportation – 17 500 people deported to Siberia
Double “D” is what depicts
Time in Lithuania
Feeling that Soviet occupation is comming, first refugees started to move to the West with prezidentas Antanas Smetona ahead.
They felt that Western countries,
especially USA are safer than
Europe which is turining into
The War.
Ieva Anušauskaitė Vischool 2013, Vilnius
Spring(„Vesna“, 1948 m.), Deported 40 000
Swash („Priboj“, 1949 m.) Deported 32 000
Autumn („Osen“, 1951 m.) Deported 15 000
During soviet occupation until 1952 deported and sent to labor camps 275 000 Lithuanians.
USA, Canada
Former Soviet Republics
European countries,
especially after 2004