Ruth Wallash (Birute Matulis Valasiniene) was born in a farmhouse in Birzai, Lithuania, on February 19, 1924. At the tender age of 14, she courageously travelled by ship unaccompanied to America to live for a time with her father's sister, Apolonia Zwigaitis, and her husband (Stanley) and family. With the onset of WWII and the subsequent Soviet occupation of Lithuania, Ruth never returned to live with her family in her beloved homeland, although she, her children and her grandchildren have...
Ruth Wallash (Birute Matulis Valasiniene) was born in a farmhouse in Birzai, Lithuania, on February 19, 1924. At the tender age of 14, she courageously travelled by ship unaccompanied to America to live for a time with her father's sister, Apolonia Zwigaitis, and her husband (Stanley) and family. With the onset of WWII and the subsequent Soviet occupation of Lithuania, Ruth never returned to live with her family in her beloved homeland, although she, her children and her grandchildren have...