Period 112SITES OF MEMORY

Birutė: "It was a long time ago...When in 1955 I‘ve settled down in Kaunas together with my parents and saw the sculptures of lions in the Garden of the War Museum, I was so surprised.

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

Mindaugas Kavaliauskas: It was a rally to support the Act of March 11 and show our unity.

Alvydas Vaitkevičius: I found this picture at booksellers next to Merkurijus without any inscriptions or signs...

Kęstutis: "We were living at Gričiupio Street, where the current KTU student campus is located.

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

Audronė: „Pilis dabar atrodo visai kitaip.

Lili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė (2014): We would often play in Miesto Sodas.

Lili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė: The flood of 1946 in Kaunas was a very strong one.

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

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

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

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

Alvydas Vaitkevičius: I am sending several photos by a famous photographer from the Soviet times, Stanislovas Lukošius which he gave me before he passed away.

Indrė Žakevičienė: The most memorable event for me was the commemoration of February 16 in 1989 in Santaka Stadium and the “analogue” of the Baltic Way 25 years ago in the Museum of War.

Solveiga Lukminaitė: My brightest memories are related to my favourite places in Kaunas, especially Kaunas yacht club.

Irina: “My dad is Russian.

Alma: Some time ago, this university was called Kaunas Polytechnic Institute and the campus was built only around 1975.

Arkadijus Vinokuras (member of the "Company"): We were proud of Kaunas, and the situation of Lithuania hurt us, so a lot of us would carry a litas coin featuring Duke Vytautas from the Smetona times.