Ninth Fort Museum

Ninth Fort Museum

The Ninth Fort is a military defense fortress located in the suburbs of Kaunas, Lithuania. It is part of the Kaunas Fortress complex and was built in the late 19th century. During the Soviet era, it served as a prison and transit camp for prisoners. During World War II, it was occupied by the German Nazis and turned into a concentration camp where more than 30,000 people were killed, most of them Jews from Kaunas, along with some Soviets.

Today, the exhibits at the Ninth Fort Museum bare the inhumane crimes that took place here. The museum houses historical artifacts related to Soviet atrocities and the Nazi genocide, as well as items and documents about Kaunas’s early history and the Ninth Fort itself. The Nazi Victims Memorial, standing at the Ninth Fort, was designed by sculptor A. Ambraziunas and erected here in 1984. The monument stands 32 meters tall. The area where victims were once buried is now a grass field, beside which lies a stone inscribed in several languages: “This is the place where the Nazis and their collaborators murdered more than 30,000 Jews from Lithuania and other European countries.”

The Ninth Fort Museum

Must-visit reason: One of the most noteworthy museums in Kaunas

Continent: Europe【Europe】

Country/Region: Lithuania[Lithuania]

Province/State: Kaunas County [Kaunas County]

City: Kaunas [Kaunas]