The non-existing memorial to the Righteous Among the Nations Jan Zwartendijk will remain on the façade of No. 29 forever as a refusal: in 2003 the owner of the building rejected the Kaunas Municipality’s request to place a commemorative plaque to the saviour of Jews, therefore the plaque had to be placed on house No. 42 Laisvės Avenue instead.”
If the Jews, running away from death, were able to dig a tunnel straight through the Earth, gravity would have taken them from Lithuania to Curacao on the other side of the world in just 42 minutes (Paul Cooper’s mathematically calculated “gravity train” effect).
In Kabbalistic tradition 42 is the number with which God creates the Universe.
“42” is the answer “to life, the universe and everything”, given to the hitchhikers through the galaxy by a computer called Deep Thought after seven and a half million years’ calculation.
In Egyptian Book of the Dead there are 42 questions asked of persons making their journey through Death. If they are able to give answers to all 42 questions, they can reach the ultimate goal of becoming a Star that gives light to the Universe.
42 is the angle for which we see a rainbow.