Mr. President. June 13 and 14 have been set aside by Lithuanian Americans to honor the memory of those Lithuanians who have been deported to Soviet Russia and to slave labor camps in the Arctic and Siberia. It was 16 years ago. in June of 1941. that the Soviet Union occupied the Baltic States and packed off thousands upon thousands of citizens. many never to be heard from again. Many are still in exile. Unknown numbers have died. and Baltic families to this day are broken up with little hope of ever being reunited. Three years ago the Select Committee To Investigate the Incorporation of the Baltic States into the U.
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