• The memorial to the victims of Nazism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania, was designed by sculptor A. Ambraziunas.
  • The Ninth Fort is one of the defences of Kaunas fortress and a historical and architectural monument protected by the state.
  • In 1924, the Ninth Fort was in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was used as the Kaunas city jail. However, its defensive function in the event of war was preserved.
  • Students from Croatia, Hungary, Germany and Lithuania visited the Ninth Fort of the Kaunas Fortress Museum to take part in the eighth edition of the...
  • Ninth Fort. Visiting the site where well in excess of 30,000 European Jews were murdered by the Nazis and their Lithuanian accomplices between 1941 and 1944 is...
  • The Ninth Fort is many things: it's a 19th century fortress built for defence by the Russians, turned into a Gulag by the soviets and a site of execution by the...
  • I return to the Ninth Fort on my summer visit to Kaunas. As always, I stop to sit on the cement fence that runs across the field of grass like a grey snake.
  • Enquire ahead for guided tours of different aspects of the site, including the early history of the fort and the Holocaust in Lithuania (extra charges apply, usually €5).
  • Kaunas ninth fort - holocaust memorial.
  • In the early 1900s, the Ninth Fort of Kaunas was built. This was one of several forts constructed to protect the city from attacks and intruders.