EUROPAST / Vilnius University (Lithuania).
Rūta Matimaitytė is a doctoral student at the Lithuanian Institute of History (Lithuania) writing her doctoral dissertation on the topic of “Migration of Children to Soviet Lithuania (1944 – 1960): History, Memory, Trauma”. Her research on the German children of East Prussia was awarded the Prize of the Department of National Minorities. The researcher is actively engaged in the promotion of memory of the German children of East Prussia in Lithuania. She gives public lectures, and contributes to projects involving schoolchildren. Matimaitytė’s research interests span across the fields of migration, children, memory and trauma, as well as the application of oral history.