Period 112SITES OF MEMORY

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

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.

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

Kęstutis: „Augau Aleksote, S.

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.

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

Laisvės alėja (Freedom Avenue)

Audronė: „Pradėjau lankyti devintą vidurinę Senamiestyje.

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

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

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

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

Audronė: „Prie Neries nevyko nieko įdomaus.

Asija: “When the family got too big, we received a room in Laisvės Ave.

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

Gintaras: Posters started to appear in Kaunas, just like in Vilnius, after the bloody events of January 13.

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

Alvydas Vaitkevičius: I cannot stop myself from sharing certain interesting pages with the memories about our old War Museum.

Eglė: Hens running across the yard, pigs being farmed behind the house and the old horse of Kaunas silently sitting in the garage...

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