Architectural, Cultural sights in Kaunas
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Sugihara House
Kaunas-based Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara (1900-86) saved 12,000 Jewish lives between 1939 and 1940, issuing transit visas to stranded Polish Jews who faced being forced into Soviet citizenship. When the Soviets annexed Lithuania and ordered all consulates be shut he asked for a short extension. Dubbed 'Japan's Schindler', he disobeyed orders for 29 days by signing 300 visas per day, and handed the stamp to a Jewish refugee when he left. Sugihara House tells his life story.
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House of Perkūnas
Off the southeastern corner of Rotušės aikštė, the curious House of Perkūnas was built in red brick in the 16th century as trade offices on the site of a former temple to the Lithuanian thunder god, Perkūnas.
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Kaunas Musical Theatre
Independent Lithuania's first parliament convened in 1920 at the Kaunas Musical Theatre, the former State Theatre Palace overlooking City Garden (Miestos Sodas) at the western end of Laisvės alėja since 1892.
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