Albinas Pocius, the Lithuanian Minor Activist
Albinas was born on December 13th 1918, not far from Sėda. His parents were farmers. He finished Sėda Primary school and then the Sėda middle school. He first joined the scout movement in 1930, as a 12 year old, an interest that he retained throughout his life. Albinas attended high school in Mažeikas, but finished high school in Klaipėda. He studied journalism at the Vytautas Didysis school. During the soviet occupation Albinas worked on the railways. In August 1944 he fled the Russian front and fled to the west. He found himself in the Montomery camp in Dorverdene camp and later Seedorf, the British zone. It was in a Seedorf Displaced Persons camp in Selsingen that he met Ruta Pociute whom he later married on the 23 March 1947. On February 1949 they left Naples on the boat Nea Hellas , bound for Australia. Albinas spent his two work contract planting pine trees and later working in Housing Trust building homes. The skil...