Bronislovas Paukštys

Bronislovas Paukštys
Born(1897-02-15)15 February 1897
Kurynė, Suwałki Governorate, Congress Poland
Died17 December 1966(1966-12-17) (aged 69)
Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR
OccupationCatholic priest
Known forRescue of Jews during World War II
AwardsRighteous Among the Nations (1977)
Life Saving Cross (1999)

Bronislovas "Bronius" Paukštys (15 February 1897 – 17 December 1966) was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic priest who rescued around 120 Jewish children and 25 Jewish adults from the Holocaust in Lithuania. He was recognized as the Righteous Among the Nations in 1977.

Paukštys was a primary school teacher before joining the Salesians of Don Bosco and receiving an education in Italy. Ordained as a priest in 1935, he worked in Vytėnai, Saldutiškis, Kaunas. During World War II, he helped Jews by forging documents and by finding safe places to hide. After the war, he was arrested by the Soviet NKVD and sentenced to ten years in Gulag. He returned to Lithuania in 1956 and lived in obscurity.

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