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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 (!). After submitting our documents to the graduate admissions committee at the Central Office of Kaunas Polytechnic […]

Rimantas: “This photo of my daughter Edita is taken in 1963, when she was 3.5-years-old. I liked taking photos since my very childhood, we used to visit the garden in front of the Museum of War quite often, and this was where I captured her photo teasing the lions. I was working in a special […]

Žilvinas: “My brother and I, we are twins. We used to be very naughty children and to get some rest, our grandma would bring us for a walk to visit the lions. On one of such occasion, we found a photographer who took a photo of us all. Later something similar happened when we were […]

Arūnas: “I spent my childhood and youth in Kaunas. I managed to find a few photos. It makes me happy that people captured in them are still alive and well. So are the lions. The first photo was taken in 1956. From the left: me, my cousin Vytautas, my cousin Laimutė and sister Rūta. The […]

Memories of (the mother of) Laima Jarašūnienė about Kaunas: The brightest memory about Kaunas from the childhood. It was a day, when I came to Kaunas with my friend. I remember like it has happened today. It was the last day of summer in 1991. My friend Inga and I, we came from our little town […]

Marius: During the Interwar period, my great-grandparents and grandparents were living in Šančiai, an industrial district unique in the entire Lithuania. There is a lot of information about Šančiai in a book by Jurgis Vanagas called “Šančių praeities takais”. My great-grandfather Augustinas Kneipferavičius was born in 1881, Raseiniai county, Šidlava district, Naukaimis. In 1937, he moved […]

Galina: “Formerly, the Christmas tree was decorated at Vienybės (Unity) Square. There was a feast and Santa Claus was coming to see the children. We lived in S.Nėries Street (now V.Putvinskio Street), so we would see the decorated tree from our home windows. They would always decorate a real tree and near it would stand a […]

Jolita: My grandparents lived “on the hill”, in Vilijampolė. I used to visit them with my parents at first and later I went there alone. I used to take a trolleybus from the 6th Fort to get to Kaunas Castle, and then waited for bus No 4 to get to Kaunas Clinical Hospital; buses on […]

Lomo Nose: Portraits of friends captured in the yards of Dainava microdistrict in 1985. On my 10th birthday, my mother’s brother, uncle Stasys, gave me my first photo camera, Lomo Smena Symbol, 35mm. My childish eye recorded this all scanty Soviet environment: neighbour Juozas, postwoman Aušra, friends from the yard and their childish shenanigans. (2017)