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- 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.
- 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 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. Kaunas was a significant cultural base of the Jews living in Lithuania; its Jewish community amounted to one third of the city's inhabitants...
- As battling empires rolled over the land and its people, the Nazis in 1941 forced out the Soviets. The Ninth Fort’s bleak history soon darkened.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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).
- The Ninth Fort is one of the defences of Kaunas fortress and a historical and architectural monument protected by the state.