Author. She was a Lithuanian historian, author, and educator of history and east European languages and the wife of poet, playwright, and literary theorist Balys Sruoga. She wrote several textbooks on the history of Lithuania including updating "History of Lithuania" in 1958. Through her professional periodical articles, she gave a historical view of Lithuania: "The Lublin Union," "The Most Famous Women of Dukes Radvila," "The Oldest Images of Women in Lithuania," "The Grand Duchess Elena 1476 to 1513", and at least 30 more. With both her parent descending from Lithuanian nobility, she was the daughter of Casimir Daugirdas, a veterinarian, and Jadvyga Paulavicaite. Her parents were sent to Caucasus after being found guilty of the possession of books written in their native Lithuanian language. During the period between 1864 to 1904, Russia attempted to destroy the Lithuanian culture by controlling the education of Lithuanian students, closing universities, thus the students had to go to Russian schools. She spoke Polish at home, a hired teacher taught her French, studied Russian at school, and communicated with her peers in Ukrainian. Through her life, she translated books from French, Russian and other languages into Lithuanian. She received a top tier education and studied in Moscow until the Russian Revolution. She later studied at the University of Berlin, but again had to abandon her studies prematurely due to the political mayhem. In 1924, she married Balys Sruoga and completed her history degree in 1929 at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. When her husband was sent during World War II to Stutthof Concentration Camp in 1943, she and her daughter Dalia relocated to Germany in hope of being closer to her husband. Many members of her family and friends died at the camp. After the camp was liberated in 1945, her husband was sent back to Lithuania. With the dangers of Soviet occupation of Lithuania, she stayed in exile in Germany, separated from her husband with little communication through the "Iron Curtain". Her husband died in Lithuania in 1947, and in 1948, she completed her PhD. She and her daughter emigrated to the United States in 1949, where she taught European studies and continued to write books and articles about history and emigrant cultural life. She was one of the organizers of the Chicago Advanced Lithuanian School and later contributed to the founding of the Advanced Pedagogy Lithuanian Course in 1958. From 1958 to 1970 she was a Professor of European Studies at Aurora University in Illinois, about 30 miles west of Chicago, where she taught languages and history. After her death, her remains were buried with her husband's, and a small, flat marker was placed on the site for her. In 1974 her biography "Balys Sruoga in Our Memories."