Monument and Partisan Dugout Shelter of the Narimantas Company of the Kardas Unit
Bunker
Monument and Partisan Dugout Shelter of the Narimantas company of the Kardas unit are located in the Kretinga district, after turning off road No. 2308 onto Mokyklos Street and approaching the forest near Žibininkai.
In western Lithuania, in Palanga Municipality of the time, a Narimantas (Pušis) company of the Lithuanian Freedom Movement of the Kardas unit of Žemaitija region, commanded by Major Jurgis Ožeraitis, operated from 1947, where men from the area fought. The partisans of Narimantas Company built a bunker in the forests of Alsedžiai, which, as a result of treason, was besieged by the soldiers of the 24th Riflemen Regiment of the Internal Troops of the KGB and the Palanga Parish Destroyer Unit on 7 February 1949. As the partisans tried to break the siege, five members of the company died.
On 18 September 2009, the doors of the restored partisan bunker were ceremoniously opened in Žibininkai Forest on Vilimas Hill. Here, on the initiative of Petras Gabrenas, the former chairman of the Palanga Association of Exiles and Political Prisoners, through the care of Rada Matulevičienė, the owner of the brewery “HBH Juozo”, as well as with the support of the Kretinga Forestry, the former bunker of the Narimantas Company of the Kardas Partisan Unit was authentically restored and a monument was erected.
Used sources and references:
Lithuanian Partisans' Samogitian Region 1945–1953, Vilnius, 2010.
Romas Kaunietis, Memories of Freedom Fighters, Part IX, Vilnius, 2014.
Information from the Palanga Department of Lithuanian Political Prisoners and Exiles.