The Ninth Fort is an essential stop for anyone visiting Kaunas with an interest in the Holocaust and/or Lithuanian history. The Soviet built museum had had a makeover in terms of content and the recently done exhibits have many interesting artifacts on display (and, importantly, descriptions in English). The focus of the main museum building is on the suffering of... more

Not that anyone needs another reason to hate the Nazis but add this to the list. I visited in the first week of June at the end of a ten day tour of Lithuania. The monumental statuary is incredible. What appears to be wood is actually concrete. Some 50,000 plus were slaughtered here. more