Students from the Lithuanian Health Sciences University Gymnasium displayed a sensitive and moving artistic composition called Memory Road at the mass murder site. Kaunas deputy mayor Vasilijus Popovas, Ninth Fort Museum director Jūratė Zakaitė and deputy museum director Marius Pečiulis spoke of the need to remember and never forget painful and even shameful parts of history. Kaunas Jewish Community chairman Gercas Žakas said it’s important for young people to get to know a different culture and a different ethnic group personally, because this sort of knowledge allows them to understand someone from a different ethnicity is still a person just like they are. Chairman Žakas thanked the students and teachers of the Health Sciences University Gymnasium and other Kaunas schools as well as school Tolerance Center directors for teaching pupils respect, tolerance, sympathy and historical memory.

Later there was a screening introduced by director of the Polish Institute in Vilnius Marcin Łapczyński of director M. T. Pawłowski’s film Touch of an Angel (2015) which is movingly narrated by a Jewish child in Auschwitz who survived the Holocaust with his family. In the film Polish Jew Henryk Schoenker revisits his childhood where the specter of war still lives, and talks about his family, hiding and tremendous efforts made to survive. Many members of the audience cried.