Nijolė Sadūnaitė

Nijolė Sadūnaitė (born 22 July 1938 in Kaunas) was a clandestine Lithuanian Catholic nun of the Soviet period who worked with the Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Lithuania.[1] In 1975 she faced three years of imprisonment for her efforts. She spent time imprisoned in the Moldavian SSR and then in Boguchany.[2] She reportedly faced a variety of abuses in this period, including torture.[3] She wrote A Radiance in the Gulag about her experiences.[4][5]

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