• 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...
  • The memorial to the victims of Nazism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania, was designed by sculptor A. Ambraziunas.
  • 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.
  • The Ninth Fort is one of the defences of Kaunas fortress and a historical and architectural monument protected by the state.
  • 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.
  • During the years of Soviet occupation, 1940–1941, the Ninth Fort was used by the NKVD to house political prisoners pending transfer to Gulag forced labor camps.
  • The first shootings at the Ninth Fort took place on September 26, 1941. Until the end of June 1944 around 30 000 Jews were killed there.
  • 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...
  • Ana Sayfa Gezi Rehberi Avrupa Ninth Fort – Kaunas. ... Ninth Fort, Neman ve Neris Nehirleri’nin birleştiği noktadaki Kaunas şehrinde bulunur.
  • A visit to the Ninth Fort museum is a somber but powerful experience, providing a harrowing insight into Lithuania’s Nazi occupation, WWII, and the Holocaust.