Period 112SITES OF MEMORY

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

Irina: “My dad is Russian.

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The ice rink in front of the State Institute of Physical Education was a favourite place for the youth of Žaliakalnis

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

Lili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė (2014): Everyone on the same lion !

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.

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.

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

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

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

Audronė: „Pilis dabar atrodo visai kitaip.

Rūta: "In the spring, 1958 we said our goodbyes to Kaunas VI Secondary School.

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

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

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.

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.

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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.