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S. Girdenis contains information as follows: my cousin was a partisan in the woods and my brother was a partisan during the German times. This was written down in 1991. It was fixed, so it can be interpreted. Therefore, there are many more live and historical narrations about the partisans. So this is one more source which is already grouped, selected and designed, but, in my view, it may provide historians, ethnologists and sociologists with valuable information for their studies. These live memories and narrations may be very useful in a certain field. Moreover, the primary card-file consisting of 4.5 million cards is being digitalised and someday it will be available with all the dates, information providers, detailed geographical description, etc. So I encourage all of you to use this source in order to better understand our national identity, to experience the pleasure and imagination of our language, to discover the features of our national character (and sometimes they are not so attractive to us, i.e. it is illustrated that money is necessary for corruption; it is very difficult to imagine that such an illustration would be possible in an English language or German language dictionary), to revive our historical memory and to realise what is happening to us and inside of us in the 1st half of the 21st century. You are very welcome to the Institute of the Lithuanian Language where you can use this valuable source.
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