After Vėbra’s death, his daughter Inga Ilarienė gave the manuscripts and other material to the Manuscript Department of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. The formal reason for giving this material to the Manuscript Department was quite clear: Vėbra was an academician, and the department collects material about the work and activities of its scientists. There were other reasons as well. While Vėbra is still an ‘undiscovered’ part of the cultural opposition to Soviet rule, members of his family believe and argue that he suffered persecution because of his activities as a historian. Inga Ilarienė knows personally Dr Rima Cicėnienė, the deputy director of the library, who worked as head of the Manuscript Department and helped to transfer files to the department.