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In May 1949, Jan
Stankievič and his family, along with many other Eastern European refugees traveled on returning US troop ships to the United States. where he lived for the remainder of his life. Jan Stankievič was an active member of the Belarusian diaspora in the United States. His first apartment
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While in Warsaw Jan
Stankievič joined the newly formed Party of Belarusian Nationalists. Convinced of the eventual defeat of the Nazi regime, they make connections with the Polish underground and its exiled government in London to have influence on the post-war outcomes in Eastern Europe. During this
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In the years that followed, he also established the
Francis Skaryna Publishing Society to publish books and other materials relating to Belarusian culture and history until his death in July 1976. During this period, Jan Stankievič worked with the ancient Hebrew and Greek scholar Dr. M. Gitlin (who
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In order to escape the advancing Soviet troops, who he had reason to believe would arrest him due to his
Belarusian political activities, Jan crossed the nearby Lithuanian border until the events of 1940. At that time the Baltic republics became Soviet republics and the Lithuanian SSR acquired the
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He later rejoined his growing family in Vilnia and continued teaching while also publishing a number of books and other publications on the
Belarusian language. In 1938 he was dismissed from his position at Vilnia University by the Polish authorities due to his Belarusian activism. To support his
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Germans launched a quickly successful surprise attack on their former ally, the Soviet Union, in June 1941, many of the refugees in Warsaw from formerly Soviet-occupied areas such as Vilnia and Minsk returned home, including Jan Stankievič. In 1942, Jan moved to Minsk where he wrote
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In 1945, after a visit from the Soviet NKVD looking for Jan
Stankievič, Jan's wife and children left Prague the next day for American-occupied Pilsen, eventually rejoining him in Regensburg, Bavaria. In Regensburg Jan Stankievič became the first administrator of the Belarusian section of the
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In 1943, Jan
Stankievič, unwilling to include Nazi propaganda in his textbooks and therefore displeasing his Volksdeutsche supervisor, left Minsk to rejoin his family in Prague. In addition, Prague had become home to a sizable Belarusian emigre community during the war into which Jan quickly
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in 1926, and became a Doctor of
Slavonic philology and history. At this time he also married Czech-born Mary Novak in Vilnia at a ceremony officiated by his Arlianiaty cousin, the Roman Catholic priest, Adam Stankievič. Between 1928 and 1932 he worked as a
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city of Vilnia as part of its territory. When
Lithuania became part of the Soviet Union, Jan Stankievič then left for East Prussia and made his way to German-occupied Warsaw that was becoming a magnet for a variety of refugees from Soviet-occupied lands.
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Regenburg Displaced Persons camp. In this role Jan Stankievič continued to promote Belarusian language and history by also teaching Belarusian language in the camp school, while his Vassar-educated wife, Mary, taught English.
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was also familiar with various Slavic languages) to complete a Belarusian translation of the Bible from original Hebrew and Greek sources. Jan Stankievič considered this translation to be the work of his lifetime.
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