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Dobrė: “The action was held in November 1941: at 6 pm we were lined up. Our line, where my aunt, my grandmother and I were standing, was checked only after dark. At the time, I was ill, covered in boils, and for that reason I looked very tired, and my grandmother as well. Only my aunt […]

Fruma: “We were hiding in Petrašiūnai, a place that was not considered to be part of the city. We once came up with an idea to go back home. We were going from Aukštieji Šančiai down Siūlų Street towards the city centre, my father and brother were recognized by three Hiwis, and therefore were arrested and […]

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 […]

Kęstutis: “We were living at Gričiupio Street, where the current KTU student campus is located. Previously, it was a village on the outskirts of the city, however now it is almost the city centre. It was an international neighbourhood. My best friends were German-born children. Also, there lived many Russians and some Poles. Of course, there […]

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 […]

Fruma: “My first childhood memories connected to Kaunas are very warm. My grandparents lived in the heart of Kaunas, near Town Hall Square. At the time, buses did not run during holidays, so we used to get from Šančiai district to the Old Town on a carriage (at least we called it so) or on 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)