The Commemorative Plaque, Dedicated to Albinas Endrius Stubra

At the request of the Klaipėda District Division of the Lithuanian Journalist Union, on June 11th, 2009, the building at 10 S. Daukanto st. (former S. Dacho st.) now has a commemorative plaque on it, which states the following: Albinas Endrius Stubra, a photographic journalist, teacher, and Lithuanianist, has lived in this building from 1976 until 2007.
A. E. Stubra was born on June 10th, 1929 in Klaipėda and has lived there for his entire life, except during Hitler’s occupation in 1939-1945. In 1964, having graduated from the Klaipėda Teacher’s Institute, Stubra started work at the 1st Klaipėda Boarding School. Stubra, along with his pupils, have visited all of the mounds of Western Lithuania and the Curonian Spit. During these travels, he told the history of this region.
In 1966, A. E. Stubra started work as a photographic journalist in the city’s newspaper, present day Klaipėda newspaper. Stubra has been recording both everyday and historical events that were happening in the city until 1999, when he turned 70 and retired. A. E. Stubra signed his photographs using his actual name as well as his pseudonym A. Klaipėdis. Stubra was capable of recording all of the larger and smaller gatherings, festivals, people, monument revelations and the barricades that were placed during the times of the restoration. The thousands of historical photographs, depicting the life of the city, are his legacy.
Equally important was Stubra’s activity in restoring the history of Lithuania Minor and Klaipėda. He wrote about the region’s history and each footprint that was left here with love. Stubra advocated the traditions and the unique cultural legacy of the Klaipėda region through his greatly-pronounced articles in the press. He was also very active in the efforts to return the remains of many famous Lithuanianists.