Signatories of the Act of Independence of Lithuania recognition. The signatories succeeded in their mission and independent Lithuania survived until the Soviet Union occupied the state on June 15, 1940. Their political, professional, and social backgrounds were diverse. Several rose to political prominence; Antanas Smetona and Aleksandras Stulginskis were later elected Presidents of Lithuania and Jonas Vileišis went on to become mayor of Kaunas, the temporary capital of Lithuania. After Lithuania lost its independence during World War II, six of the surviving signatories were sent to prison or executed by the Soviet government and six others emigrated to Western countries. The signatories came from a variety of social
Church of the Holy Family, Jerusalem 1910 by the Rieger organ manufacturer of Jägerndorf (now Krnov) in the Czech Republic (in 1910 in Austria-Hungary). Church of the Holy Family, Jerusalem The Church of the Holy Family (, , ) also known as the Chapel of the Holy Family, is a Catholic church building located in the Austrian Hospice in the Old City of Jerusalem. The church building originated as a pilgrim hostel of the Catholic Church created in 1853 by the Austrians in Jerusalem ("Österreichisches Hospiz zur Heiligen Familie"). The chapel of the complex was ceremonially consecrated 19 March 1863 by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem