Period 112SITES OF MEMORY

In December, 2018 The lions that are protecting the entrance to Vytautas Magnus War Museum commemorate their 85th anniversary.

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

Petras Vileišis Square (or Smėlynė, as it was called by the residents of Kaunas) was a place famous for horse racing.

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.

Laisvės alėja (Freedom Avenue)

Lili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė: If someone is collecting historical material, there is an interesting episode.

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.

Aleksandra: “I lived just next to Laisvės Alėja.

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

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

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

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 (!).