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Liucija and Daiva: “Sonata” was an integral part of our youthful life, just like lessons, it was the same with dancing. I remember, during Čiurlionis’ 100th commemoration, we have been traveling Lithuania with a performance. We were fifteen. We would get back late at night, and ran home from Panemunė bridge, while our frightened mothers […]

Gercas: “Basically, all amateur activities had to go through a selection process. There had to be songs in Russian and Lithuanian. Amateur activities were allowed, but I am almost completely sure that there were people infiltrated in them as well. Director Judelis Rondaris decided to create a drama in Jewish language (Yiddish) and he needed people […]

Jonas: “The mosque that previously belonged to National M. K. Čiurlionis Museum was returned to Tartars in 1990. Someone had to overtake it, and there was no one who could do it. So, this is how I became the head of the community. My activities were mostly related to the mosque, its installation, exploitation and […]

„Namas stovėjo Laisvės alėjos pradžioje, prie Vytauto parko, šalia apsodintos liepomis ir alyvomis kalno papėdės. Dailus, komfortiškas, šviesiai pilkas Namas buvo pastatytas trisdešimt trečiaisiais metais. Tuo metu Laisvės alėjoje atsirado nemažai prestižinių daugiaaukščių namų banko tarnautojams, gydytojams, kūrybinei inteligentijai ir kitai pasiturinčiai publikai. Gyventojams buvo labai gera – rytinė centrinės miesto gatvės dalis, šalia senas […]

Judita: “When I was young I used to live with my custodian in M. Valančiaus Street. There was a market in the old town that was always full of people. Rumours would spread very easily. Therefore, the women that worked in the market soon knew that I was Jewish. However, I was christened according to Christian […]

Judita: ”I had many photos in the ghetto house. They became toys when my parents would go to work and my little brothers to school. When being alone in the ghetto, I was mostly afraid that some man with a gun would come and shoot me down. That fear hasn’t disappeared up until this day, but […]

Asija: “The most important place for me was the Sobor. Pretty much all of the most significant memories were associated with this building. I remember when a whole bunch of children ran to the Sobor, as a neighbour from a nearby house was getting married there. It was my first encounter with Lithuanian traditions and with […]

Asija: “When the family got too big, we received a room in Laisvės Ave. 1A (currently Laisvės Ave. 3). The apartment had 5 rooms, each housing a different family. The rooms were separated by glass doors. Each side followed their own way of living. This “transparent’’ life continued for a long time, as covering the doors […]

Writer Markas Zingeris: for me as a child, Laisvės Avenue (Lithuanian: Laisvės alėja) was both freedom and a promise. Freedom from classes or concerns, and a promise of dreams and exotic places. There was a book store there, in which I bought The Severed Hand by W. Hauff, and a cinema near the city garden, […]