Spudaitė Šepetienė Julija Viktorija

Julija Viktorija Spudaitė Šepetienė (1928–2020) was born in Kaunas (father – Povilas Spudas, mother – Paulina Spudienė, sister – Aldona Spudaitė Gaulienė). In 1936, she entered a primary school in Kaunas, graduating in 1941. In the same year, as she writes in her autobiography submitted to Vilnius University during admissions, her father died. Indeed, Povilas Spudas, a Lithuanian political and public figure was arrested in 1941 and died in the Sverdlovsk labour camp in 1944. In 1941, and Julija, her mother and sister were exiled to Altai. (In her autobiography submitted to the University, she wrote that she had to go to Krekenava to her relatives due to financial difficulties. In 1945, she allegedly graduated from an incomplete secondary school.) In December, she escaped from exile and entered the seventh form of Panevėžys Girls’ Gymnasium. A year later, in 1947, she returned to Kaunas and entered Kaunas III Girls’ Gymnasium and graduated. In the autumn of 1948, she started studying at Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine. In December 1949, she was arrested and deported back to the Krasnoyarsk Krai. She worked in a chemistry laboratory of a metallurgical plant. In 1954, her husband Marijonas Šepetys requested Vilnius University to return his wife's maturity certificate. In 1955, Julija’s family was rehabilitated. The family returned to Lithuania in 1957. In 1958, the woman requested to continue her studies at Vilnius University, but she was not allowed to do so. Later on, she completed her studies in Kaunas.

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