Ninth Fort
Kauno IX fortas
One of the forts of the Kaunas Fortress and a Nazi Holocaust site from World War II. A massive memorial sculpture here is deeply moving.
One of the forts of the Kaunas Fortress, built by Imperial Russia at the end of the 19th century. Between the wars it served as a prison. During World War II, the Nazis murdered about 50,000 people here, most of them Jews, making it the most important Holocaust memorial site in the Baltic region. The site features a giant stone sculpture memorial, 32 meters tall and completed in 1984, along with a museum that presents the history of the fortress, Soviet persecution and the Holocaust. It is about 7 km north of the city center and can be reached by bus. The museum is closed on Mondays.
Opening hours
Tue–Sun 10:00 am–6:00 pm (memorial area open all day)
Nearby sights
- Santaka Park
- Kaunas Castle
- Kaunas Town Hall
- Kaunas Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul
- House of Perkūnas
- Church of Vytautas the Great
- Kaunas Old Town
- Historical Presidential Palace