European Memories
of the Gulag
Retour
Fermer
Letter of condolence for the death of his brother Pavilas during the Kengir uprising
© Antanas Seikalis
Funeral in an exiles’ village in the Krasnoyarsk region
© Antanas Seikalis
Prisoners in the Kengir camp in May 1955
© Antanas Seikalis
Young Lithuanian prisoners in the Kengir camp in May 1955
© Antanas Seikalis
Lithuanian women in the Kengir camp in May 1955
© Antanas Seikalis
Erection of the cross in memory of the victims of </br> the 1954 Kengir camp uprising in Kazakhstan, 1990
© Antanas Seikalis

© Antanas Seikalis

© Antanas Seikalis

© Antanas Seikalis

© Antanas Seikalis

© Antanas Seikalis

© Antanas Seikalis
Life in exile
Since Lithuania’s independence, Antanas Seikalis has spent much of his time collecting documents and photos about the Kengir uprising in the Steplag in Kazakhstan. On the first day of the uprising in May 1954, when the guards over-reacted and fired on the prisoners, his brother Pavilas was killed.
Antanas has taken part in a number of conferences on prisoners’ resistance in the Gulag, has visited the sites of the uprising and, with others, has managed to get a cross erected in memory of the victims.