A plain granite memorial stands at the corner of Ariogalos and Linkuvos commemorating the thousands of Jewish men, women and children who lived, suffered and perished under the Nazis and their willing Lithuanian helpers. Not all doom and gloom, the Ghetto had many moments of joy as well as resistance. The Latvian-born Jewish artist Esther Lurie (1913-1998), the so-called Artist of the Kovno Ghetto who was visiting Kaunas at the time of the German invasion, survived the Ghetto. Her many wonderful drawings of daily scenes there are well worth further investigation.
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Where is the Lietukis bus station mentioned on the main page of this section? Is it the same as the garage on the corner of Griunvaldo and Vytauto which is described in the pages of e.g. the Holocaust Research Project? (This was a small garage for servicing light vehicles though some witnesses seem to have mistakenly thought it was a petrol station - it seems to have had a single petrol pump.) Thanks