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- Kaunas, Lithuania. During the Nazi Germany times, the Ninth Fort served as a site of massacres, Jews in particular.
- The Ninth Fort is one of the defences of Kaunas fortress and a historical and architectural monument protected by the state.
- Lithuania was quickly overrun by the Nazis, who took control of the Ninth Fort and transformed it into a killing site.
- The construction of the Ninth Fort (its numerical designation having stuck as a proper noun) began in 1902 and was completed on the eve of the First World War.
- Museum of the Ninth Fort - sights of Lithuania (Kaunas) - descriptions and photos, reviews of tourists.
- At the time, Kaunas Fortress was the largest defensive structure in the region. Memorial to the Victims of Nazism Ninth Fort Kaunas Lithuania-20 Ninth Fort.
- Discover everything you need to know about Ninth Fort, Kaunas including history, facts, how to get there and the best time to visit.
- In 1958, a museum was established in the Ninth Fort. In 1959, an exhibition was prepared in four cells, telling of the Nazi war crimes carried out in Lithuania.
- However, until the November massacres at the Ninth Fort, no Reich Jews had been killed in such massacres.
- What is fascinating about Ninth Fort is that it has seen several changes over its 100 year history - it has been a regular prison, a Soviet prison and also a Nazi prison.
- Ninth fort on the outskirts of Kaunas city is a memorial built for remembering tens of thousands of civilians mass murdered by Nazis during the world wars.
- The fort was used as a prison and transit facility for Jews during the Second World War, and was thereby connected to the genocide against the European Jews.
