- 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.
- The dedication to the casualties of Nazism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania, was composed by stone worker A. Ambraziunas.
- You can't visit Kaunas without going to the Ninth Fort. Take the 57 taxi bus from the city centre and then walk the last 5 mins.
- 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.
- 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.
- Our visit to the Ninth Fort in Kaunas Lithuania in May 2018. I decided to make this a silent video out of respect for the people who lost their lives here.
- 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...
- Ninth Fort (IX Fort) former soviet prison and nazi place of execution - Kaunas, Lithuania Stock Photo - Alamy Fort ix By Alamy.
- 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.