Editing Marija Gimbutas (section)

===Emigration and life abroad===
In 1941, she married architect Jurgis Gimbutas. During the [[Second World War]], Gimbutas lived under the [[Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1940)|Soviet occupation]] (1940–41) and then the [[German occupation of Lithuania during World War II|German occupation]] (1941–43).<ref>{{Harvnb|Ware|Braukman|2004|pp=234–35}}.</ref>

Gimbutas' first daughter, Danutė, was born in June 1942. One year after the birth of their daughter, the young Gimbutas family, in the face of an advancing Soviet army, fled the country to areas controlled by [[Nazi Germany]], first to Vienna and then to Innsbruck and Bavaria.<ref name="WareBraukman235">{{Harvnb|Ware|Braukman|2004|p=235}}.</ref> In her reflection of this turbulent period, Gimbutas remarked, "Life just twisted me like a little plant, but my work was continuous in one direction."<ref>{{Harvnb|Marler|1998|p=118}}.</ref>

While holding a postdoctoral fellowship at Tübingen the following year, Gimbutas gave birth to her second daughter, Živilė. In the 1950s, the Gimbutas family left Germany and relocated to the United States, where Gimbutas had a successful academic career.<ref name="WareBraukman235" /><ref>{{Harvnb|Chapman|1998|p=300}}.</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Marler|1998|p=119}}.</ref>  Her third daughter, Rasa Julija, was born in 1954 in Boston.

Gimbutas died in [[Los Angeles]] in 1994, at age 73. Soon afterwards, she was interred in Kaunas's [[Petrašiūnai Cemetery]].