Ninth Fort memorial explained

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.^{[1] [2] [3]}

The monument is 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."^{[4] [5]}

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.^[6]

External links

• Photo essay about the monument and its construction

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Notes and References

1. News: Mirė IX forto memorialo kūrėjas skulptorius Alfonsas Vincentas Ambraziūnas . 11 June 2020 . lrt.lt . 20 May 2020 . lt.
2. Book: Subotić . Jelena . Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism . 2019 . Cornell University Press . 978-1-5017-4241-5 . 189 . en.
3. Book: Bousfield . Jonathan . Baltic States . 2004 . Rough Guides . 978-1-85828-840-6 . 128 . en.
4. Web site: History:The Museum . Kauno IX Forto Muziejus . 2019-02-15.
5. Web site: MUSEUM OF THE NINTH FORT - Kaunas tourist Information centre and cenference bureau . 2014-10-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141023013354/http://www.kaunastic.lt/index.php/en/dovan-kuponai/product/40-museum-of-the-ninth-fort.html . 2014-10-23 . dead .
6. Web site: Naktį Kaune išniekintas IX forto memorialas nacizmo aukoms atminti (papildyta, nuotraukos). lrytas.lt. 6 October 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131019093634/http://www.lrytas.lt/-13025099531301283120-nakt%C4%AF-kaune-i%C5%A1niekintas-ix-forto-memorialas-nacizmo-aukoms-atminti-nuotraukos.htm. 19 October 2013.