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.

Audronė: „Pilis dabar atrodo visai kitaip.

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

Mindaugas Kavaliauskas: It was a rally to support the Act of March 11 and show our unity.

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

Music club Senas Stalčius (Laisvės ave.

Gintaras Vitulskis: The first victory.

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

Eugenija: "I saw the graves of Darius and Girėnas in the institute.I was admitted to the medicine institute in 1945.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Greta: To me, VMU equals study years.

Liucija and Daiva: "Sonata" was an integral part of our youthful life, just like lessons, it was the same with dancing.

Gintaras: "One detail stuck to my mind from the dismantling of Leninas monument: next to Donelaičio Street, under a tree, I saw an elderly couple, probably of Russian nationality.

Laisvės alėja (Freedom Avenue)

Aleksandra: “I lived just next to Laisvės Alėja.