CURRENT PROJECTS

Pursuing and supporting initiatives with school systems in the Chicago Metropolitan area to include literature with Lithuanian content as suggested reading for students

• Between Shades of Gray, by Ruta Sepetys; a novel, through the eyes of a 15 year old girl, depicting the forced deportation of Lithuanians to Siberian labor camps under Soviet occupation.
• Underground, by Antanas Sileika; a novel depicting the Lithuanian partisans’ guerilla war of resistance against Soviet occupation of Lithuania; the longest and bloodiest war of resistance recorded in modern Europe

FUTURE PROJECTS

• First Hall of Fame induction ceremony tentatively scheduled in August, 2013. Date TBA
• Support (fundraising) and promotion of a movie project based on Antanas Sileika’s book, Underground.
• Lobby for inclusion of Lithuanian history in school history texts.
• Establish a home for the NLAHF.