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.

When I was sixteen, it was the first time, when I brought my photo camera to the Oakwoord Park, Darius and Girėnas Sports Centre, the Hall and the Stadium.

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

Solveiga Lukminaitė: My memories related to Laisvės alėja (Avenue) are only positive ones.

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

Laisvės alėja (Freedom Avenue)

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.

A.K.: Russian Aesthetic Education Centre later received the name of Mstislav Dobuzhinsky.

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

Elvyra: “When me and my husband arrived at Linksmakalnis, the soldiers were still there.

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

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

1 photographLili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė (2014): Me and my mother in the Oakwood Park in1947.

Tadas Ivanauskas High School

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.

Sculptor Robertas Antinis sharing his memories about  people of Laisvės avenue and Kaunas (2014).

Audronė: ,,Gyvenau ir ligi šiol gyvenu name, kuriame yra ,,Medžiotojų užeigos“ restoranas.

Audronė: „Prieplaukos krantinę vadindavom cimbruvka.

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

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