Kovno was very different 80 or 90 years ago from what Kaunas is today.

Back then, it was the provisional capital of Lithuania, a new country on the map that had declared its independence in 1918.

The Litvak Landscape is, to start with, a map mixing different chapters and layers of the history of Kaunas. It connects people and their ideas, buildings and their residents, Litvaks and Lithuanians, the past and the present – and it’s also inviting to collaborate in the future.

An incredible amount of information, names, professions, deeds, dates and events, scattered around in books, archives, newspapers and webpages, were discovered when compiling the list of the stops in the route – and the process was heart-breaking, to say the least, at times.

Read more in the Baltic Review: Kaunas: Kovno - name you are more used to hear