At the end of the 19th century the city of Kaunas was fortified and by 1890 was encircled by eight forts and nine gun batteries. Construction of the Ninth Fort (its numerical designation having become its name) began in 1902 and was completed on the eve of World War I. From 1924 on, the Ninth Fort was used as the Kaunas Prison.
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- Only general organised guided tours take place in Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum at weekends.
- The memorial to the victims of Nazism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania, was designed by sculptor A. Ambraziunas.
- In 1924, the Ninth Fort was in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was used as the Kaunas city jail. However, its defensive function in the event of war was preserved.
- Hello, I will be traveling to Kaunas from Klaipeda. I was thinking of getting off at the ninth fort stop and go directly to the place. My concern is my luggage.
- I return to the Ninth Fort on my summer visit to Kaunas. As always, I stop to sit on the cement fence that runs across the field of grass like a grey snake.
- 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.
- For those interested in Jewish heritage and Holocaust history, a visit to the Ninth Fort is a must. It is a sad place, but with an important story.
- Not far from the ancient ninth fort, a museum was built with metal gates and buildings in the original style. In 1984, expositions were opened in the new museum.
- 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...
- 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.
