- 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).
- 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...
- 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.
- The construction of the Ninth Fort during the 20th century was significantly expensive - the cost of this fort is calculated around 850 000 rubles.
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- Sixty-four prisoners escaped from the Ninth Fort on December 24, 1943. Some reached the Kovno ghetto; others escaped into the forest.
- 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.
- While the Ninth Fort museum was opened in 1959, the second main building in the memorial grounds was not opened until thirty years later.
- After World War II, the Soviets again used the Ninth Fort as a prison for several years. From 1948 to 1958, farm organizations were managed from the Ninth Fort.
- Final muster of the Jewish Police before being taken to the Ninth Fort. "We are 900 Frenchmen" Convoy 73 from Drancy, France.