- One of the most popular attractions in Kaunas is the Ninth Fort, a former military fortification located on the banks of the Nemunas River.
- Despite some rain on the drive over, our luck was good and we got sunshine when we most needed it at our outdoor explore of the Ninth Fort.
- Lithuania was quickly overrun by the Nazis, who took control of the Ninth Fort and transformed it into a killing site.
- 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.
- 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 this post we concentrate on two of these, Seventh Fort and Ninth Fort. The forts are number clockwise and can be found throughout the city.
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- More than 50,000 persons were murdered in the Ninth, and other, forts (primarily the Seventh, and Fourth), many of whom were Jews from the Kovno ghetto...
- Exterior view of the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania. Sign: "On the night of December 25, 1943, 64 witnesses of the Nazi's crimes escaped by this route."