Marcelė Kubiliūtė

Marcelė Kubiliūtė (July 28, 1898, Tindžiuliai, now in Rokiškis district municipality, Lithuania – June 13, 1963, Vilnius), was a Lithuanian public figure, active in press, education and military areas. She is the only Lithuanian woman awarded all major Lithuanian orders.[1][2]

After the second Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1944, Kubiliūtė remained working in a library. On August 17, 1944 she was arrested by NKVD. For nine months, she was continuously interrogated, held in the KGB cellars starving. Later she was transferred to Lukiškės Prison. On July 7, 1946, Special Council of the NKVD sentenced her to 5 years in exile. Till 1949 she lived in exile in Tyumen, later in Akmola Region. After the expiration of the time of exile on September 30, Kubiliūtė departed to Lithuania where she was sheltered by Jonas Biliūnas' widow, Julija Biliūnienė. However, the tuberculosis acquired in exile has undermined health. Kubiliūtė was buried in the Rasos Cemetery next to the Lithuanian volunteers, whom she herself with her friend Elžbieta Matulionytė buried in 1920.[3]