Period 112SITES OF MEMORY

Gintaras: Žalgiris Stadium was not only a place of sports events; people were also interested in the shows by stunt drivers from Czechoslovakia.

Petras Vileišis Square (or Smėlynė, as it was called by the residents of Kaunas) was a place famous for horse racing.

Gintaras: "One detail stuck to my mind from the dismantling of Leninas monument: next to Donelaičio Street, under a tree, I saw an elderly couple, probably of Russian nationality.

Fruma: "My first childhood memories connected to Kaunas are very warm.

Siegfried: “Just at the outskirts of Kaunas, I was dug up by locomotive firemen and picked up like some kitten.

Alma: It is very nice to remember how people would gather in the Oakwood Park.

Laumė café that was working during the Soviet times was famous for its good coffee and sweets but the most important thing there was the sense of community.

Gintaras: In Vilniaus Street, next to the underground passage, there is a building with niches, in which three little sculptures were placed.

Robertas Antinis: Orbita was a superb club. It was special.

Svetlana: “I was living in Siberia and came to Lithuania from Irkutsk when I was 32 years old.

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.

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.

Memories about Oakwood Park by people of Kaunas.

Asija: “The most important place for me was the Sobor.

Audronė: „Namas priklausė Zabielų rūmams. Ir pats namas – dabar jis supaprastintas – buvo labai įdomus, ypač architektūra apačioje, visur – skliautai, didžiuliai praėjimai, sraigtiniai laiptai.

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

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

Gintaras: Posters started to appear in Kaunas, just like in Vilnius, after the bloody events of January 13.

1 photographPovilas and Vanda Tarnauskai, shareholders of the restaurant Versalis, with their daughter at the War Museum .

Neringa: Yesterday, while driving from Vilnius to Kaunas, I saw the “new” sign of the city of Kaunas and realized that the old sign was a really special place.