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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. The rest became ghosts or a place where other activities are being developed. ” As I‘ve read those […]

Elvyra: “When me and my husband arrived at Linksmakalnis, the soldiers were still there. After the restoration of independence, the town was passed on to the Ministry of Communications and Information; later to the Kaunas Radio Center, which leased the territory to the public limited liability company Statyba (Eng.: Construction). My husband had worked there.In […]

Eugenija: “I remember, when they destroyed Stalin’s monument. The windows of our apartment were facing the appendix. From the window I could say that the traffic had been stopped, people couldn’t walk across the street, nor go down the street of Parodos. A truck arrived. It was dark, a lot of police. I saw how […]

Eugenija: “I lived nearby. I crossed the street, where there currently stands a Russian school.That’s how I walked into the cemetery. There was a mosque there, benches, the backyard of the school.Later they started dismantling everything there, diggings began, excavators came and they wouldn’t let us walk there anymore.I would only walk near the mosque […]

Stasys: “Since I lived up the hill in the city, in Vaižgantas street, I used to go past the cemetery to work. This one time, one red-cheeked guy said you can’t walk through here – go around. I say: “Why? How come?” He yelled back to me: “I’m telling you you can’t. Get out of […]

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 […]

Rūta: “In the spring, 1958 we said our goodbyes to Kaunas VI Secondary School. I have received my silver medal on graduation.  In a couple of months, in August, I have started working at Kaunas Drobė Factory as a twin machine operator. It was a very large factory, at that time we had workers who […]

In December, 2018 The lions that are protecting the entrance to Vytautas Magnus War Museum commemorate their 85th anniversary. On this beautiful occasion, the students of Kaunas University of the Third Age and dean Birutė Štuikienė gathered  to share their memories and congratulations for the museum’s lions.  

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. For me, a 12-year-old villager, it was so beautiful, so beautiful – that was the first time I saw sculptures. […]