Rescuers of Jews
Sutkus Antanas
ANTANAS SUTKUS
JADVYGA SUTKUVIENĖ
In the summer of 1944, Antanas and Jadvyga Sutkus allowed pianist Nadezhda Dukstulskaitė to stay at their homestead in the village of Ringaudai (Kaunas district), where she happily lived out the war.
N. Dukstulskaitė had known the Sutkus family from the past, and as a pianist she had worked with Antanas Sutkus at the Lietuvos Radiofonas, when he was a director there. In 1944, as the front was approaching, N. Dukstulskaitė escaped from the Kaunas Ghetto and hid in the Sutkus' summer house. She was taken in by Jadvyga Sutkuvienė's sister, E. Oškinaitė, as the Sutkus themselves retreated as the front approached.
In 1998, Antanas and Jadvyga Sutkus were awarded the Life Saviour’s Cross.
JADVYGA SUTKUVIENĖ
In the summer of 1944, Antanas and Jadvyga Sutkus allowed pianist Nadezhda Dukstulskaitė to stay at their homestead in the village of Ringaudai (Kaunas district), where she happily lived out the war.
N. Dukstulskaitė had known the Sutkus family from the past, and as a pianist she had worked with Antanas Sutkus at the Lietuvos Radiofonas, when he was a director there. In 1944, as the front was approaching, N. Dukstulskaitė escaped from the Kaunas Ghetto and hid in the Sutkus' summer house. She was taken in by Jadvyga Sutkuvienė's sister, E. Oškinaitė, as the Sutkus themselves retreated as the front approached.
In 1998, Antanas and Jadvyga Sutkus were awarded the Life Saviour’s Cross.