• This collection contains documents concerning the handing over of Jewish inmates and the mass killing of Jews at the Ninth Fort (the description based on Galina...
  • Built at the start of the 20th century as a military fort to protect Kaunas, the Ninth Fort was barely completed before World War I. After the war, it was transformed...
  • More than 50,000 persons were murdered in the Ninth, and other, forts (primarily the Seventh, and Fourth)...
  • In 1902 construction of another fort was initiated–and this fortification was logically named the “Ninth Fort.”
  • After the restoration of independence, the museum was supplemented with expositions reflecting all stages of the Ninth Fort history.
  • Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania, is a significant historical site with a complex and somber history.
  • Museum== The Ninth Fort museum contains collections of historical artifacts related both to Soviet atrocities and the Nazi genocide...
  • The building of the Ninth Fort, the latest fort, started in 1903 and was finished on the eve of World War I.
  • One of the most unique aspects of the Ninth Fort is just how much this landscape physically represents and reflects the history of Lithuania over time.
  • 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...