In 1933 she met in Minsk and married artist Nicolay Paskevich[6] When the advancing Nazi German army took Minsk, the family had to flee. With them they had Ona's sister's baby daughter Birutė (now Birute Zuyovich;[1] who was eventually adopted by Ona's family,[7] because both Ona and her sister, also named Birutė, an actress,[8][9] thought of each other that they perished, and had reunion only 50 years later). In 1942 she eventually reached Lithuania and settled in Kaunas.[3][6] Here they had their own daughter Alyja (Alyna)[10] (Alyja has become an artist as well,[11] a costume designer at Walt Disney theme parks known under the name Alyja Kalinich.[12][13])
With the advance of Red Army, the family tried to flee to Switzerland, but they were placed into the displaced persons camp in the American Zone of Germany in 1944.[6] In 1949 they moved to the United States. After living in New York, in 1982 the family moved to Santa Monica.[3]
Work
Danas Lapkus, and art editor of the Lituanus magazine, describes her artistic style as based on both realism and romanticism, "a supple new growth upon the trunk of Socialist Realism".[4]
References
^ ab[draugas.org/archive/2007_reg/2007-11-21-DRAUGAS-i13-16.pdf Draugas, November 21, 2007], p. 11, obituaries
^ abDanas Lapkus, "ONA DOKALSKAITĖ: A ROMANTICIST", Lituanus, Volume 38, No.3 - fall 1992 (Excerpt from the monograph Ona Dokalskaitė, the Art of Ona Dokalskaitė-Paškevičienė)
