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Monument to Jews killed at Fort IX in Kaunas

Ninth Fort memorial is a memorial designed by the Lithuanian sculptor Alfonsas Vincentas Ambraziūnas and unveiled in 1984. It commemorates the victims of the Ninth Fort, a Nazi execution site for the Jews in the Kovno Ghetto.

The monument is 105 feet (32 m) high. The mass burial place of the victims of the massacres carried out in the fort is a grass field, marked by a simple yet frankly worded memorial written in several languages. It reads, "This is the place where Nazis and their assistants killed about 45,000 Jews from Lithuania and other European countries."

On 11 April 2011, the memorial to the victims of Nazism was vandalized — the memorial tombstones were knocked down, and white swastikas were spray-painted on the memorial. On the adjacent sidewalk, the words “Juden raus” (German: Jews Out) were inscribed.

References

  1. "Mirė IX forto memorialo kūrėjas skulptorius Alfonsas Vincentas Ambraziūnas". lrt.lt (in Lithuanian). 20 May 2020. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  2. Subotić, Jelena (2019). Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism. Cornell University Press. p. 189. ISBN 978-1-5017-4241-5.
  3. Bousfield, Jonathan (2004). Baltic States. Rough Guides. p. 128. ISBN 978-1-85828-840-6.
  4. "History:The Museum". Kauno IX Forto Muziejus. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  5. "MUSEUM OF THE NINTH FORT - Kaunas tourist Information centre and cenference bureau". Archived from the original on 23 October 2014. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  6. "Naktį Kaune išniekintas IX forto memorialas nacizmo aukoms atminti (papildyta, nuotraukos)". lrytas.lt. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2012.

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