Monument sights in Kaunas
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Statue of Maironis
In the square's southwestern corner is a statue of Maironis (1862-1932), a Kaunas priest called Jonas Mačiulis who was the poet behind Lithuania's late-19th- and early-20th-century nationalist revival. Stalin banned his works. From 1910 to 1932 Maironis lived in the house behind now what is the Maironis Lithuanian Literary Museum.
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Field of Sacrifice
Field of Sacrifice - a name engraved on paving slabs in front of the garden is a tragic (2002) tribute to the young Kaunas hero, Kaunas student Romas Kalanta. On 14 May 1972 he doused himself in petrol and set fire to himself in protest at tyrannical Soviet communist rule. A suicide note was found in his diary explaining why.
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Choral Synagogue
Close to Laisvės alėja, a memorial at Kaunas' only operational Choral Synagogue remembers 1600 children killed at the Ninth Fort. The WWII Jewish ghetto was on the western bank of the Neris, in the area bounded by Jurbarko, Panerių and Demokratų streets.
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