What is Irena Veisaitė?
[[File:Irena Veisaite 2009 2.jpg|right|200px]] '''Irena Veisaitė''' (9 January 1928 &ndash; 11 December 2020) was a Lithuanian theatre scholar, intellectual and [[human rights]] activist. She was born in [[Kaunas]], [[Lithuania]]. She was a [[Holocaust]] survivor. She was a lecturer at the teacher's college in [[Vilnius]] from 1953 to 1997 She was awarded the [[Goethe Medal]] in 2012 for her contribution to the cultural exchange between Germany and Lithuania. She was President of the [[Open Society Foundations|Open Society in Lithuania Foundation]]. Veisaitė died on 11 December 2020 in Vilnius from [[COVID-19]] at the age of 92.<ref>[https://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/kultura/12/1292348/mire-koronavirusu-sirgusi-literaturologe-teatrologe-irena-veisaite Mirė koronavirusu sirgusi literatūrologė, teatrologė Irena Veisaitė] {{in lang|lt}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Veisaite, Irena}} [[Category:1928 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic]] [[Category:Holocaust survivors]] [[Category:Lithuanian Jews]] [[Category:Lithuanian educators]] [[Category:Human rights activists]] [[Category:People from Kaunas]] {{bio-stub}}