Australian Lithuanian History

I think I have read every autobiography concerning Australian Lithuanians, and so thought I would give an American Lithuanian story a read.  Lithuanian Roots in American Soil: A Memoir of the Barunas Family   by Audrone Barunas Willeke      2014   The story reads like so many of the DP's who fled the Soviet invasion at the end of WWII.  The Barunas family, then consisting of Kazys, Jadvyga and baby Audrone  left Lithuania in the summer of 1944. They expected to return home at the end of the war but instead had to move further west into war-ravaged Germany.   After miraculously surviving bombings and near starvation, they ended their flight in displaced persons' camps under American administration. In these camps three more children were born and a grandmother died.   Unable to return to communist-occupied Lithuania, they found the chance to sta...

If Lithuanian Jews are called Litvaks and Lithuanian Americans are known as Lugans, what are Australian Lithuanians known as?  Australians shorten everything so its no surprise that Lithuanian become Litho's.  While on the outside we look like any other Australian there are some things that make us different.  Here are a few.