20 year old Lithuanian partisan
Sara Ginaite armed with a Mosin-Nagant M38 carbine
during the liberation of Vilnius, Lithuania. 13th of July,
1944. Sara was a Jewish-Lithuanian that escaped the
Kaunas ghetto. Soon after escaping she joined a local
communist-affiliated resistance unit in the Rudnicki
forest. The unit took part in the liberation of Vilnius in
1944 where she was famously photographed by a Soviet
officer. The Vilnius offensive lasted from 5th of July to
the 13th of July, 1944. After
the war Sara became a professor of political economics
at Vilnius University. Her husband died in 1977 and in
1983 she moved to Canada. She became an Adjunct
Professor at York University, and lectured in the U.S.,
Canada, Europe, and Israel on World War 2 history and
social science- She died in 2018
