ENZYS JAGOMASTAS, (1870-1941), printer, editor, and
publisher, born in Lumpenai, near Tilze (Tilsit), on March 22, 1870. Having
learned the art of printing he spent his entire life in Tilze, actively
participating in the Lithuanian movement. From 1898 he owned his own
printing press Lithuania. There he printed many Lithuanian
books and newspapers. He himself edited the magazine Ausra (Dawn)
from 1896-1900, Savaitrastis (Weekly) from 1912-1913, Naujasis
Tilzes Keleivis (The New Traveler of Tilsit) from 1924 (together with
his daughter Ona), and Unsere Stimme (Our Voice) from 1929, in which
he answered the Germans' reproaches to the Lithuanians. In 1940 the German
Nazi government forbade the printing of any Lithuanian newspaper. In the
spring of 1941 Jagomastas was forced to emigrate to Lithuania which was
occupied by the Soviets. When the Germans occupied Lithuania, Jagomastas
with his wife, his daughter Ona, his sons Dovas and Jurgis, and his
son-in-law E. Vilmantas were executed without trial by the German secret
police (Gestapo) on June 30, 1941 in Vilnius.
Literature:
ENCYCLOPEDIA LITUANICA I-VI, 1970-1978, Boston
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