Kipras Petrauskas is recorded at Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations - one of the non-Jews who risked everything to save Jewish lives during the Holocaust.
The record lists Kipras Petrauskas as Lithuanian singer and opera singer (1885–1968).
Kipras Petrauskas was born at Ceikiniai in 1885. His recorded nationality is Russian Empire. He was educated at Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
By occupation Kipras Petrauskas was opera singer and politician - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
Most rescuers said afterwards that they had done nothing remarkable. The historical record disagrees, which is the point of recording it.
Recognition: Stalin Prize, Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner of Labour and Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas.
Kipras Petrauskas died in 1968, aged 83. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Stalin Prize
- Order of Lenin
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
- Commander's Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
- Worked as opera singer and politician
- Educated at Saint Petersburg Conservatory
