Juozas Žukas Explained

Birth Name:Joseph J. Zukas
Birth Date:29 October 1915
Birth Place:Chicago, Illinois
Death Place:Tucson, Arizona

Jonas Juozas Žukas (October 29, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois - July 7, 1981)[1] [2] [3] was a Lithuanian basketball and tennis player. He won a gold medal with Lithuania national basketball team during EuroBasket 1937.

Žukas lived in northern Chicago, near Ogden Park, and was known as Joseph "Joe" Zukas.[4] His first visit to Lithuania was in 1930, where he worked as a sports instructor in the physical culture department in Kaunas.[5] He would later be part of a delegation of Lithuanian American athletes from Chicago that went to the 1935 World Lithuanian Congress in Kaunas, and stayed there teaching tennis and being a part of the national basketball team.[6] [7] He played basketball for CJSO Kaunas.[8]

He returned to the United States, and lived in Tucson, Arizona, where he died on July 7, 1981.[9] [10]

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  1. "New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24KK-H33 : 2 March 2021), Joseph Zukas, 1937; citing Immigration, New York, New York, United States, NARA microfilm publication T715 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
  2. "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWYT-LPH : 8 January 2021), Joseph J Zukas in household of John Zukas, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 103-954, sheet 5A, line 9, family 78, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 949.
  3. Web site: Joseph Zukas in Social Security Death Index. 2021-03-21. Fold3. en.
  4. Web site: Chicago Tribune - Historical Newspapers. 30 May 2023 .
  5. https://archive.org/stream/4223970_4/4223970_4_djvu.txt CHICAGO NET STAR FINDS LITHUANIA A WONDERFUL PLACE TO LIVE
  6. http://draugas.org/key_dnlh/lh/issues/2012-09-15-LHERITAGE.pdf{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  7. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=kss_fac The Motherland, the Godfather, and the Birth of a Basketball Dynasty: American Efforts to Promote Basketball in Lithuania
  8. Web site: EČ istorija. Penki Lietuvos žingsniai į krepšinio šlovę (1937 m.).
  9. Web site: Arizona Daily Star from Tucson, Arizona on July 10, 1981 · Page 39. 2021-03-21. Newspapers.com. 10 July 1981 . en.
  10. Web site: Tucson Daily Citizen from Tucson, Arizona on May 30, 1947 · Page 7. 2021-03-21. Newspapers.com. 30 May 1947 . en.

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