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Kaunas, Kaunas County, Lithuania
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The Ninth Fort is a fortress in the northern piece of Silainiai elderates, Kaunas, Lithuania. It is a piece of the Kaunas Fortress, which was developed in the late nineteenth century. Amid the control of Kaunas and whatever is left of Lithuania by the Soviet Union, the fortress was utilized as a jail and path station for detainees being transported to work camps. After the control of Lithuania by Nazi Germany, the fortification was utilized as a position of execution for Jews, caught Soviets, and others.

The Ninth Fort gallery contains accumulations of recorded antiquities related both to Soviet outrages and the Nazi decimation, and also materials identified with the before history of Kaunas and Ninth Fort. Most shows are named in English. The dedication to the casualties of Nazism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania, was composed by stone worker A. Ambraziunas. Raised in 1984, the landmark is 105 feet 32 m high. The mass internment place of the casualties of the slaughters did in the fortress is a grass field, set apart by a basic yet honestly worded commemoration written in a few dialects.

It peruses, "This is where Nazis and their partners murdered around 45,000 Jews from Lithuania and other European nations." On April 11, 2011, the dedication to the casualties of Nazism was vandalized — the remembrance gravestones were thumped down, and white swastikas were splash painted on the commemoration. On the neighbouring walkway, the words "Juden raus" German: Jews Out were recorded.

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