- Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum is located in the city of Kaunas, Lithuania. ... Ninth Fort was started in 1902 and ended only with the outbreak of the First World War.
- Tens of thousands of Jews from throughout Europe were sent to the Ninth Fort to be murdered in mass shootings as part of the Holocaust.
- In 1958, a museum was established in the Ninth Fort. The Ninth Fort is a stronghold in the northern part of Šilainiai elderate, Kaunas, Lithuania.
- 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).
- During the period of the Nazi occupation, up to 200 people were imprisoned in this and other cells of the Ninth Fort. There were not enough berths for everyone.
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- In 1902 construction of another fort was initiated–and this fortification was logically named the “Ninth Fort.” It was completed at the start of the First World War.
- 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.
- The memorial to the victims of Nazism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania, was designed by sculptor A. Ambraziunas.
- Final muster of the Jewish Police before being taken to the Ninth Fort. "We are 900 Frenchmen" Convoy 73 from Drancy, France.