Flood in 1946

Lili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė: The flood of 1946 in Kaunas was a very strong one. The picture shows my mother and me on an ice flow at the corner of Vasario 16-osios and K. Donelaičio streets. After that year, there were no more floods like that.

Imagine how terrifying it was: but people placed us on an ice floe and took a photo! And then transported us by a boat to our relatives.

My father told me that everything at home was floating table-high … (2014)