Adele was much like many other women who helped to shape Lithuania’s first Republic. She worked in various youth and women’s organizations, wrote articles, poetry, and organized seminars. Adele also taught German at a girls’ school until her arrest by KGB in 1946 for “contra-revolutionary” activities. Despite enduring eight months of torture in a secret KGB prison, her spirit remained unbroken. Even in Siberian gulags she continued teaching and supporting other women, emphasizing forgiveness over revenge. This message was captured in a small prayer book called “Mary, Save Us,”. Translated into more than nine languages and distributed in hundreds of thousands of copies, it remains one of the most widely published Lithuanian books to this day.

Photo Source: Wikipedia

Watch video in this time frame: 06:08-07:48