Period 112SITES OF MEMORY

Galina: “Formerly, the Christmas tree was decorated at Vienybės (Unity) Square.

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.

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

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

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.

1 photographLili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė (2014): Me and my mother in the Oakwood Park in1947.

Judita: "When I was young I used to live with my custodian in M.

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

Neringa: In childhood, our parents would bring us to Vytauto Park.

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

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

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.

Lili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė: The flood of 1946 in Kaunas was a very strong one.

Eugenija: "I lived nearby.

„Ne kiek to baisiausio žmonijos istorijoj karo Tadas ir beprisimena – keli paveikslai, ir tie neaišku, ar paties prisiminimai, ar vėliau išgirsti žmonių pasakojimai, pavirtę prisiminimais, keli pablukę vaizdai: vienas iš Kauno, antras iš Vilniaus, trečiasis iš Veprių.

Lolita: "Gimiau ir augau Kauko alėjoje (kai gimiau, ji tuo metu dar vadinosi S.

1 photographPovilas and Vanda Tarnauskai, shareholders of the restaurant Versalis, with their daughter at the War Museum .

Portraits of friends (1985) captured in the yards of Dainava microdistrict

Tadas Ivanauskas High School

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