The oral history resource includes:
(1) Audio recordings (recorded in 2009-2010) of personal narratives by siblings Pranas Šuminskas and Vladislava Šuminskaitė about their childhood in the Lithuanian village of Laičiai, their deportation to Siberia, and lives after returning from exile. In total, there are 54 recordings (Šuminskaitė (VS) – 18 recordings, Šuminskas (PS) – 27, both speakers (PS-VS) – 9)) with the combined duration of 7 hours 14 minutes.
(2) Transcriptions of audio recordings.
(3) An extended description by Gabrielė Usonytė on her acquaintance with the speakers, the recording process and a transcribed version of the records accompanied by related illustrative material.
(4) English translation of Gabrielė Usonytė’s text a as well as speakers’ biographies. Translation was performed by ChatGPT 3.5, Open AI, edited by Jurgita Vaičenonienė.
This oral and written resource might be of interest to linguists (as the speakers speak in Eastern Aukštaitian dialect), historians, anthropologists and other researchers both in Lithuania and abroad.
