A Cross for the Partisan Vytautas Lukoševičius-Lizdeika
Coordinates: 55.497539 22.196119
Object address: The partisan cemetery on the north-eastern part of Šilalė
Municipality: Šilalė district
The partisan cemetery on the north-eastern part of Šilalė, near the monument For Those, Who Died for the Freedom of Fatherland, there is a cross, built in memory of Vytautas Lukoševičius-Lizdeika, partisan of the United Kęstutis Military District. Vytautas Lukoševičius-Lizdeika died on 15 August 1946 in Spraudaičiai village and was buried in the Didkiemis-Laumenai forest.
Two identical crosses were consecrated at a holy mass at Šilalė church on 6 June 1992. One of them was built at the Šilalė Lutheran Cemetery, near a mass partisan grave, while the other – in the fields of Vytautas’ struggle, on the crossroad of Žvingiai-Laumenai-Kamščiai. The crosses were built by the initiative of his sister Elvyra Lukoševičiūtė-Narutienė.
Compiled in 2018