Kaunas Ninth Fort museum
The Ninth Fort was the part of the defense system of Kaunas Fortress. It was set up in 1913. After the First World War the Ninth Fort has never been used as a defensive fortification. In 1924 the Ninth Fort became a division of the Kaunas Hard Labour Prison. In 1940–1941 and 1944–1948 – there was the NKVD (The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) prison. During the Nazi occupation the Ninth Fort was a site of massacre. From 1941 till 1944 in the Ninth Fort more than 50.000 people of different nations were killed. Most of them were Jewish. Since 1958 the Ninth Fort is a museum. In 1984 at the site of massacre was build a monument (32 m height) to commemorate the victims of Holocaust and Genocide.