Period 112SITES OF MEMORY

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

Arkadijus Vinokuras (member of the "Company"): We were proud of Kaunas, and the situation of Lithuania hurt us, so a lot of us would carry a litas coin featuring Duke Vytautas from the Smetona times.

Tadas Ivanauskas High School

Rimantas: “This photo of my daughter Edita is taken in 1963, when she was 3.5-years-old.

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

Rimantas Viedrynaitis: “I was born in Kaunas, the Jewish Hospital.

Saulė: After high school, I got into Kaunas Stepas Žukas Technical School of Applied Arts.

Fruma: "My first childhood memories connected to Kaunas are very warm.

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 (!).

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

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

(Saulius Eduardas Pauliukonis, actor of Šiauliai Drama Theatre, former actor of Kaunas Pantomime troupe, who worked in Kaunas Drama Theatre with director J.

Asija: ”A protest happened in Ramybės (Serenity) Park, after which it was decided to remove the cemetery located in the park.

Asija: “In the evenings, Laisvės Avenue was full of people.

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.

Svetlana: “I was living in Siberia and came to Lithuania from Irkutsk when I was 32 years old.

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

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

The ice rink in front of the State Institute of Physical Education was a favourite place for the youth of Žaliakalnis

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