Pedzisa mashoko anotevera: Akaberekerwa mumhuri yakakura yechiJudha. Baba vaDushanki vakapofumadzwa muHondo Yenyika I uye vakanga vasingachakwanisi kuriritira mhuri yavo yakakura. Nokudaro, apedza giredhi rechi6, Dushanski akatanga kushanda. Uku kuratidzwa kwekutanga kwebasa remaoko kwakamusundira muchikomonisiti<unk>socialism uye, muna 1934, akabatana nebazi risiri pamutemo reLithuania reKomsomol (Communist Union yeVechidiki) uye akabatsira kugovera zvinyorwa zvechiKomonisiti zvepasi pevhu. Nokuda kwemibato yakadaro yekomonisiti akasungwa muna June 1936. Kutanga, akaiswa mutorongo ravana; gare gare akaendeswa kujeri kuŠiauliai neRaseiniai. Ari mujeri, Dushanski akabatana neLithuanian Communist Party muna 1938. Akasunungurwa apo Soviet Union yakatora Lithuania muna June 1940 uye akapiwa basa somubatsiri wechengetedzo pahofisi yeNKVD muTelšiai. Mabasa ake aisanganisira kuchengetedza muganhu weSoviet Union neNazi Germany. Akabatanidzwa mukusungwa kwevanhu vakawanda kwe"vavengi vevanhu" uye
Kudzingwa munyika muna June. Kupokana kwezvapupu zvakapupurira Dushanski muRainiai massacre, imwe yevakawanda veNKVD vasungwa vakaurayiwa pakutanga kwekupinda kweGerman muSoviet Union. Maererano naDushanski, panguva iyoyo akanga achidzoka kubva kuzororo kuCrimea uye akanga achiedza kubvisa mhuri yake kubva kuŠiauliai ichienda kuRussia. Zvisinei, chitima chacho hachina kubva pachiteshi uye vabereki vake nevanun'una vatatu vakafa muHolocaust; munun'una wake Jacob chete ndiye akapona.