Period 112SITES OF MEMORY

Konstantinas: “My childhood passed here, about 80 years ago.

Jonas: "The mosque that previously belonged to National M.

Judita: ”I had many photos in the ghetto house.

Jolita: My grandparents lived "on the hill", in Vilijampolė.

Alvydas Vaitkevičius: A note on the monument of Salomėja Nėris: I remember it standing there.

Gercas: "Basically, all amateur activities had to go through a selection process.

Liuda Riaukienė: “My grandparents Povilas and Vanda Tarnauskai were shareholders of Versalis company.

Gintaras Vitulskis: These pictures are from the 1930s: in one of them, there is a festive formation of yachtsmen (or maybe sea scouts) captured as seen from Aleksotas, and the other one with Aleksotas in the background. In 1932, the yacht club was established next to Aleksotas bridge in a building floating on a pontoon platform, the so called brandwacht.

Audronė: „Katedros šventorius buvo atskirtas plačia tvora, viduje buvo parduotuvytės.

Portraits of friends (1985) captured in the yards of Dainava microdistrict

The first building of Garrison Officers' club during the Interwar period was in a two-storey building designed by an unknown architect at the corner of Laisvės Alėja and A.

Pastor Vladimiras Sereda: "/.../ In 1980, I came to Lithuania with my wife after our wedding. As people of faith, we were looking for some community.

Elena: "While drinking my morning tea, I read an article about the old Kaunas movie theatres:" It's incredible, but today in Kaunas, out of almost 40 old movie theatres, only one had survived and is still operating.

Gintaras Vitulskis: The first victory.

Gintaras Vitulskis: After the war, when the wooden cinema Lyra (Lyre) burned to the ground, and Taika (Peace) cinema theatre had not been built yet, the Methodist church was nationalized and turned into a cinema theatre.

Tadas Ivanauskas High School

Dobrė: “The action was held in November 1941: at 6 pm we were lined up.

Rimantas: “This photo of my daughter Edita is taken in 1963, when she was 3.5-years-old.

D.B.: Even though that for most residents of Kaunas, Picture Gallery seems as located in a Bermuda triangle, to me it has probably become a symbolic place, where I made the decision about my profession.