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