Vanda Sruogienė née Daugirdaitė (16 August 1899 – 10 February 1997) was a Lithuanian historian, educator, and cultural activist.
[2] He was exiled from the Šiauliai Julius Janonis Gymnasium for illegally reading Aušra, and as a punishment was stationed in the northern Caucasus for military service, where his daughter was born.
[5] After graduating in 1918, Daugirdaitė traveled to Lithuania and taught French at the Šiauliai Julius Janonis Gymnasium.
During Lithuanian negotiations with Poland during the Polish–Lithuanian War, Daugirdaitė interviewed members of the Military Control Commission of the League of Nations and prepared Polish and French press reviews.
[7] Sruogienė graduated from the University of Lithuania in 1929 with a degree in history,[1] becoming a member of the Lithuanian Historical Society shortly thereafter.
She was the author of multiple books on Lithuanian history, such as Lietuvos istorijos vadovėlis gimnazijoms (1935), a school history textbook, as well as Žemaičių bajorų ūkis I pusėj XIX šimtmečio (1938) and Lietuvos istorijos vaizdai ir raštai (1939).
In 1944 she moved to Germany in hopes of freeing her husband from the Stutthof concentration camp, however, he had already returned to Lithuania.
[6] As an émigré teacher living in Chicago, Sruogienė contributed to the making of the Lithuanian Encyclopedia published in Boston.