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Nijolė Sadūnaitė

Lithuanian nun and dissident

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born: 1938
died: 2024
age at death: 85
known for: nun, dissident

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Nijolė Sadūnaitė was a Lithuanian clandestine Catholic nun of the Soviet period who worked with the Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Lithuania. In 1975 she faced three years of imprisonment for her efforts. She spent time imprisoned in Mordovia and then in Boguchany. She reportedly faced a variety of abuses in this period, including torture. She wrote A Radiance in the Gulag about her experiences.

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