Raising a chapel pole made by Antanas Poskocimas in front of the Lithuanian Jesuit Fathers Youth Center, 5620 S. Claremont, Chicago, Illinois

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-20, Antanas Poskocimas (dark brown shirt) and helpers raising a Lithuanian chapel pole in front of the Jesuit Fathers Lithuanian Youth Center, 5620 S. Claremont; Mr. Poskocimas made the pole, such chapels were carved in Lithuania and fastened to trees along the wayside; this cross is dedicated to the memory of an incident in the church of Kraziai in Lithuania in 1893 when Russian soldiers raided the village and slaughtered a great number of villagers who had taken refuge in the Kraziai church, Mr. Poskocimas’s mother was one of them and received a sword slash across her face but survived; in a project recording, Mr. Poskocimas tells the story of how his mother's wound opened "as if by a miracle" on the day hearings concerning the incident were taking place in Moscow, thousands of miles from where she was living, she did not know about the trial and only learned of the coincidence later; the recorded interview with Mr. Poskocimas, in Lithuanian, is presented at call numbers AFC 1981/004: AFS 20806a, AFS 20806b, AFS 20807a, AFS 20807b, AFS 20808a, AFS 20808b, and AFS 20809a.