Atminties biuras kategorija: Interview with ethnic communities in Kaunas

Birutė Landsbergytė, a musicologist, tells about a family house in Kačerginė, about people who lived and spent their summer holiday there. – – – “Aunt Aliutė was ten years older than my father. She told me, after she found out that parents are planning to buy a plot in Kačerginė, she was very disappointed – […]

Doctor Algirdas Baltuškevičius tells about his family, work, acquaintance with his father-in-law professor Tadas Ivanauskas – prominent Lithuanian zoologist and biologist – and his Obelynė farmstead established in Kaunas district. – – – “During the fifth year of my studies, I‘ve met my future wife. My roommate – pharmacist Kazys had a sympathy for Birutė. She […]

Vytautas Balsys-Uosis is telling a story about his – Lithuanian partisan – fight pathways. – – – “While studying in Kaunas Technical Vocational Center, I‘ve joined Lithuanian Freedom Army. It was an underground organization, the only person I knew was the one who got me involved, and the one, whom I got involved. Underground printing […]

Vladimiras Majorovas, a man of Lithuanian-Russian origin, tells about his childhood in Russia during the war and settling in the native land of his mother, Lithuania. He shares stories about places dear to him in Kaunas, his first teachers, students of his own who became famous Lithuanian musicians and composers and about his legendary apartment […]

I am Laima Kedytė-Stirbienė. I was born in Šiauliai on the 26th of December 1932, on Christmas day. My father Juozas Kedys is from Suvalkija region, born in a large family in Ąžuolų Būda. He was the creator of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, member-volunteer of the Lithuanian Nationalist Union and the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union, and […]

Guy Goldfarb from Izrael shares his impressions about his first visit to Kaunas – a city where his family once lived. Some of them – like his mum Bella – missed this place so much that recently came back and settled down here again. – – – “I can say about myself that I am […]

Masha Grizaitė Elberg is a resident of Israel with the roots in Kaunas. She shares her memories about the destiny and life of her family in Kaunas and Israel. We lived in Kaunas from 1951 to 1971. Then we moved to Israel. My late mother Eta Kačernik Grizienė was born in Kaunas, Lithuania. She lived […]

Fruma Kučinskienė, a member of the Kaunas Jewish Community, talking about hiding in Kulautuva during the war. She was secretly kept in Savanorių Avenue and lands in Kulautuva by landlords Natalija Fugalevičiūtė and Lidija Fugalevičiūtė-Gulobovienė, as well as a large group of other Jewish children. Fugalevičiai sisters have saved nearly 30 children from the terrible […]

Idan Abudi is the grandson of Liuba Funkaitė Chessakov, a Jewess who was born in Šiauliai after the war and grew up in Kaunas. Idan tells us that it was important for him to come to Lithuania, and about what his grandmother Liuba means to him.Date of the interview: 2018-07-12