Period 112SITES OF MEMORY

Kęstutis: „Augau Aleksote, S.

Lolita: "Gimiau ir augau Kauko alėjoje (kai gimiau, ji tuo metu dar vadinosi S.

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

Jonas: “At the beginning of July 1962 and after graduating the 1st High School of Ukmergė (now the High School of Jonas Basanavičius), My classmate Vytautas Juknys and I, Jonas Navikas, arrived at Kaunas for the first time (!).

Eugenija: "I remember, when they destroyed Stalin’s monument.

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

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.

Liucija: I remember, when my friend and I, we would go to the Picture Gallery to visit the exhibitions.

Grafas: This photo hangs on a wall in my house.

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.

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

Stasys: "Since I lived up the hill in the city, in Vaižgantas street, I used to go past the cemetery to work.

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

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

Laisvės alėja (Freedom Avenue)

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

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

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

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

Judita: "When I was young I used to live with my custodian in M.