- 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.
- Ninth Fort. Kaunas was a significant cultural base of the Jews living in Lithuania; its Jewish community amounted to one third of the city's inhabitants...
- Ninth Fort (IX Fort) former soviet prison and nazi place of execution - Kaunas, Lithuania Stock Photo - Alamy Fort ix By Alamy.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- From June 1941 to the summer of 1944, more than 50,000 people were killed by the Nazis in the Ninth Fort, mainly Jews from Kaunas and Jews deported from...
- 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.
- Most shows are named in English. The dedication to the casualties of Nazism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania, was composed by stone worker A. Ambraziunas.