John Armonas was a U.
S.
Instead, they ended up in Siberia in one of the massive waves of deportation from Lithuania and.
His mother Barbara, a native Lithuanian, was assured by American officials she could soon follow with nine-month old John, as soon as her immigration papers were expedited. citizen, but had been left behind when his American-born father and five-year old sister, Donna, were urged to leave Lithuania back for the United States, after the Soviets first occupied Lithuania in 1940.
John Armonas was a U.
S