Other Forest Brothers were digging him a new bunker.
The collection pertaining to the Forest Brothers' armed resistance includes documents and photographs of the partisans.
Probably the last Forest Brother was caught in September 1978, and killed himself during his apprehension.
Some managed to escape arrest and joined the Forest Brothers.
On 4 February 2004, the police arrested a large number of Forest Brothers in Zugdidi.
In 1949 27,650 Soviet troops still led a war against the Forest Brothers.
Baltic partisans known as the "Forest Brothers" fought until eradicated in the early 1960s.
The conflict between the Soviet armed forces and the Forest Brothers lasted over a decade and cost at least 50,000 lives.
There were numerous attempts to hunt down relatives of the Forest Brothers.
In 2005 there were about 350 surviving Forest Brothers in Lithuania.
