{"id":780,"date":"2022-08-07T09:30:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T07:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/?p=780"},"modified":"2022-08-09T11:16:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T09:16:38","slug":"jenny-kagan-out-of-darkness-her-parents-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/2022\/08\/07\/jenny-kagan-out-of-darkness-her-parents-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Kagan, Out of Darkness, her parents\u2019 story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A story of Kaunas, <strong>a story from the past, about the Holocaust<\/strong>. <strong>Jenny Kagan\u2019s exhibit is part of the Citytelling Festival by Kaunas 2022 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fb.watch\/eL7TpdBErY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"Memory Program.\"><strong>Memory Program<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A touching exhibit has been opening in Kaunas in an old abandoned building<\/strong> beside the Presidential Palace. <strong>It tells the story of Jenny Kagan\u2019s parents, Juozas Kaganas and Margarita \u0160tromait\u0117, survived from Holocaust<\/strong>. It\u2019s a multimedia exhibit that offers a touching experience to the audience remembering what happened during the Nazi occupation, to know the atmosphere of the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WATCH OUR VIDEO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kaunas2022-Citytelling Festival: Jenny Kagan &quot;Out of Darkness&quot;\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YSVLy4m-qks?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen title=\"Kaunas2022-Citytelling Festival: Jenny Kagan \"Out of Darkness\"\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The exhibit is part of the Citytelling Festival, Kaunas 2022 Memory Program<\/strong>, whom goal is to tell the stories of people lived in Kaunas in the past. Dark pages of the city, but important to remember. They are the stories of <strong>those who lived in Kaunas and suffered the Nazi occupation before, and then the Soviet regime<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-Citytelling-Festival-Jenny-Kagan-LithuanianStories-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-781\" width=\"840\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-Citytelling-Festival-Jenny-Kagan-LithuanianStories-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-Citytelling-Festival-Jenny-Kagan-LithuanianStories-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-Citytelling-Festival-Jenny-Kagan-LithuanianStories-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-Citytelling-Festival-Jenny-Kagan-LithuanianStories-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-Citytelling-Festival-Jenny-Kagan-LithuanianStories.jpg 1417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption><strong> The buiding that houses Jenny&#8217;s Kagan exhibit for Kaunas2022<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jenny Kagan was born in UK where her parents escaped<\/strong>. Their story is a testimony of the horror of the Holocaust, but also a story of hope and thankfulness. <strong>Her parents survived thanks to the help of <a href=\"http:\/\/rescuedchild.lt\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"Vytautas Rinkevi\u010dius\">Vytautas Rinkevi\u010dius<\/a><\/strong>, a man who worked in an iron foundry, where also Jenny\u2019s dad worked forcibly as a Kaunas ghetto prisoner. <strong>Vytautas found them a hiding place inside the foundry<\/strong>. A very small room, <strong>like a box, of just six square meters<\/strong>, saved their lives. Currently <strong>Vytautas Rinkevi\u010dius is a Righteous of the Nations at the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jouzas and Margarita met each other in the Kaunas ghetto, and then they married.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"760\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1-Citytelling-Festival-Jenny-Kagan-LithuanianStories-1024x760.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1-Citytelling-Festival-Jenny-Kagan-LithuanianStories-1024x760.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1-Citytelling-Festival-Jenny-Kagan-LithuanianStories-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1-Citytelling-Festival-Jenny-Kagan-LithuanianStories-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1-Citytelling-Festival-Jenny-Kagan-LithuanianStories-640x475.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1-Citytelling-Festival-Jenny-Kagan-LithuanianStories.jpg 1417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Jenny Kagan on the right, and Justina Petrulionyt\u0117-Sabonien\u0117<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All the installations inside the building are available to visitors<\/strong>. They can touch everything, browse diaries and books, seat on chairs and armchairs, reliving that period. There are also the stories of Jenny\u2019s and Jouzas\u2019s grandparents. <strong>It\u2019s a unique experience that all of us should try<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A huge Jewish community lived in Kaunas before the World War II<\/strong>. Almost 40.000 people. Most of them were killed by the Nazi and their collaborators. <strong>Jenny tells her personal story, telling what her mother and her father told<\/strong>. In the exhibit there are audio records by her mother, the reconstruction of the small room where they were hidden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kaunas2022-Citytelling Festival: Jenny Kagan &quot;Out of Darkness&quot;\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YSVLy4m-qks?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen title=\"Kaunas2022-Citytelling Festival: Jenny Kagan \"Out of Darkness\"\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/2022\/01\/02\/kaunas2022-memory-office-for-better-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"Daiva Citvarien\u0117-Price\">Daiva Citvarien\u0117-Price<\/a>, curator of the Memory Program at Kaunas 2022<\/strong>, European Capital of Culture, said: \u201cOur goal is to remember people who lived in our city in the past and <strong>remembering our dark history that was forgotten for many years<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>During the Soviet occupation was forbidden to talk about what happened during the Nazi occupation<\/strong>. People lived under a brutal regime. Many people were deported to gulags. Other dark pages of the Lithuania history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Memory program wants to tell all those stories to Kaunasians<\/strong>, so that they can be part of their memories. <strong>But they are also part of the history of all humanity<\/strong>. In Lithuania and abroad. <strong>To remember who we were, who we are, what want to be in the future<\/strong>. Highly recommended! <strong>The exhibit is open till October 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny Kagan&#8217;s exhibit at Kaunas2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1],"tags":[78,142,67,140,141,89,13,26,143],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}