Kipras Petrauskas (November 23, 1885 as Ciprijonas Petrauskas – January 17, 1968) was a Lithuanian operatic tenor (created around 80 roles), professor, and Lithuanian Association of Artists member. The national opera foundation is associated with him.[1][2][3] He was married to Elena Žalinkevičaitė-Petrauskienė.[4] In 1942, he was asked to hide a Jewish baby girl, Dana Pomeranz, which he and his wife agreed to do.[5] To hide the girl better, he and his wife left the city, moving first to a Lithuanian village, and later to Austria and then Germany.[5] In 1947, they came back to Lithuania, found Dana's parents, and gave her back to them.[5]

Kipras Petrauskas PAU
Kipras Petrauskas, c. 1920s
Born	Ciprijonas Petrauskas (1885-11-23)November 23, 1885 Ceikiniai, Russian Empire
Died	January 17, 1968(1968-01-17) (aged 82) Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Lithuanian
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg Conservatory
Occupation	Operatic tenor
Years active	1911–1958
Spouse(s)	Elena Žalinkevičaitė
Children	Leonas "Luka" Petrauskas Guoda Petrauskaitė Aušra Petrauskaitė
Parent(s)	Jonas Petrauskas Juozapota Rastenytė

Righteous Among the Nations
The Holocaust Rescuers of Jews Righteousness Seven Laws of Noah Yad Vashem
Notable individuals
Irena Adamowicz Gino Bartali Anne Beaumanoir Jeanne Brousse Archbishop Damaskinos Odoardo Focherini Francis Foley Varian Fry Helen of Greece and Denmark Princess Alice of Battenberg Miep Gies Marianne Golz Paul Grüninger Jane Haining Feng-Shan Ho Wilm Hosenfeld Constantin Karadja Jan Karski Derviš Korkut Julian Grobelny Valdemar Langlet Carl Lutz Calogero Marrone Czesław Miłosz Aristides de Sousa Mendes Tadeusz Pankiewicz Giorgio Perlasca Nurija Pozderac Marion Pritchard Roland de Pury Ángel Sanz Briz Oskar Schindler Anton Schmid Irena Sendler Klymentiy Sheptytsky Ona Šimaitė Henryk Sławik Tina Strobos Chiune Sugihara Betsie, Casper, Corrie ten Boom Walraven van Hall Johan van Hulst Raimondo Viale Raoul Wallenberg Johan Hendrik Weidner Rudolf Weigl Jan Zwartendijk Leopold Socha Franciszka Halamajowa
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In 1999, Petrauskas and his wife were recognized by Yad Vashem as two of the Righteous Among the Nations.[5]

Kipras Petrauskas made his first recordings for Vox (Berlin 1922), then Odeon (1926 and 1928) and finally Columbia (Vilnius, ca. 1933).

Gallery

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  Kipras Petrauskas with his brother Mikas Petrauskas in the 1930s
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  Petrauskas performing the Teuton role
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  Memorial plaque to brothers Kipras and Mikas Petrauskas in Kaunas, Lithuania

References

• Rainer E. Lotz, Axel Weggen, Oliver Wurl und Christian Zwarg: Discographie der deutschen Gesangsaufnahmen Band 4, Birgit Lotz Verlag, Bonn 2005

ISBN 3-9810248-0-X

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