Elena Žalinkevičaitė-Petrauskienė (September 23, 1900 – May 23, 1986) was a Lithuanian actress and writer.[1] She was also the Lithuanian tenor Kipras Petrauskas's wife.[2][3] In 1942, her husband was asked to hide a Jewish baby girl, Dana Pomeranz, which she and he agreed to.[1] To hide the girl better, Elena and her husband left the city, moving first to a Lithuanian village, and later to Austria and then Germany.[1] In 1947 they came back to Lithuania, and they found Dana's parents and gave her back to them.[1]
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^D. Kuodytė; Rimantas Stankevičius; Alexander Fortescue (2002). Whoever saves one life--: the efforts to save Jews in Lithuania between 1941 and 1944. Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania. p. 192. ISBN978-9955-428-23-7.
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