Period 112SITES OF MEMORY

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.

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

Eugenija: "I lived nearby.

1 photographPovilas (first to the right) and Vandas (second to the left), Tarnauskas, restaurant "Versalis" shareholders, festive visit to Nemunas.

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.

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.

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

Neringa: In childhood, our parents would bring us to Vytauto Park.

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

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

Lili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė: If someone is collecting historical material, there is an interesting episode.

Audronė: „Prie Neries nevyko nieko įdomaus.

„Ne kiek to baisiausio žmonijos istorijoj karo Tadas ir beprisimena – keli paveikslai, ir tie neaišku, ar paties prisiminimai, ar vėliau išgirsti žmonių pasakojimai, pavirtę prisiminimais, keli pablukę vaizdai: vienas iš Kauno, antras iš Vilniaus, trečiasis iš Veprių.

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

Rimantas Viedrynaitis: “I was born in Kaunas, the Jewish Hospital.

Alvydas: Some time ago, before the monument for Darius and Girėnas, there was a “singing fountain”.

Liucija: I arrived from the sea coast to study in Vilnius.

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.

Writer Markas Zingeris: for me as a child, Laisvės Avenue was both freedom and a promise.

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