Adolfas Ramanauskas
Lithuanian general
Died when: 39 years 268 days (476 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Adolfas Ramanauskas (March 6, 1918 – November 29, 1957), code name Vanagas, was a prominent Lithuanian partisan and one of the leaders of the Lithuanian resistance.
Ramanauskas was working as a teacher under the Nazi administration when Lithuania was re-occupied by the Soviet Union following the Nazi occupation in 1944–45.
He joined the anti-Soviet resistance, advancing from a platoon commander to the chairman of the Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters.
From 1952 he lived in hiding with fake papers.Betrayed by a classmate, he was arrested, tortured, and eventually executed by the KGB; he was the last known partisan commander to be captured.
After Lithuania regained independence in 1990, Ramanauskas was posthumously awarded the Order of the Cross of Vytis and promoted to brigadier general.
In 2018, members of the Seimas passed a resolution identifying Ramanauskas as the "highest-ranking Lithuanian official in the fight against Soviet occupation" from 1954 to 1957.
