January 27: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
it is the date, in 1945, when the largest Nazi death camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland) was liberated by Soviet troops
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My travel in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (August 2009)
Mass murder memorial, Kanuas 9th fort, Lithuania
The Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania was originally built as a defensive fortress in the years 1901–1913. During the Nazi occupation, over 50,000 people were executed there, including over 30,000 Jews and over 10,000 foreigners.
"During the years of Nazi occupation, the Ninth Fort was put to use as a place of mass murder. At least 5,000 Lithuanian Jews of Kaunas, largely taken from the city’s Jewish ghetto, were transported to the Ninth Fort and killed. In addition, Jews from as far as France, Austria and Germany were brought to Kaunas during the course of Nazi occupation and executed in the Ninth Fort. In 1944, as the Soviets moved in, the Germans liquidated the ghetto and what had by then come to be known as the "Fort of Death", and the prisoners were dispersed to other camps.
The memorial to the victims of fascism at Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania, was designed by sculptor A. Ambraziunas. Erected in 1984, 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 more than 30,000 Jews from Lithuania and other European countries."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Fort
www.gutstein.net/kaunas/kaunas-ninthfort.htm
muziejai.mch.mii.lt/Kaunas/forto_muziejus.en.htm
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Posted by Carlo Tancredi on 2011-01-27 19:37:09
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Holocaust Remembrance Day (IX Fortas, Kaunas - over 50,000 people were executed here)
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