Photos: Ninth Fort Memorials

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	The memorial to the victims of fascism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania, was designed by sculptor A. Ambraziunas. Erected in 1984, the monument is 32 meters (105 feet) high. A brochure issued by the Ninth Fort Museum states that the monument "symbolizes pain, sorrow, tortures, and eternal remembrance."
	The memorial to the victims of fascism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	The memorial to the victims of fascism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	The memorial to the victims of fascism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	Fisheye view of the memorial to the victims of fascism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	The memorial to the victims of fascism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	The memorial to the victims of fascism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	The memorial to the victims of fascism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	The memorial to the victims of fascism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	The memorial to the victims of fascism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	The memorial to the victims of fascism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	The memorial to the victims of fascism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	The memorial to the victims of fascism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	The memorial to the victims of fascism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	The memorial to the victims of fascism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	The memorial to the victims of fascism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	The memorial to the victims of fascism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	The memorial to the victims of fascism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	The memorial to the victims of fascism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	The memorial to the victims of fascism at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	"The Way of Death" at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	Various memorial plaques at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	"O sorrow and shame—and appalled by the silence of the bystanders—the provincial capital of Bavaria, Munich commemorates the 1000 Jewish men and women, who were deported on the 20th of November, 1941 from Munich to Kaunas and were brutally murdered at this site five days later."
	Remembrance mosaic presented by the city of Munich.
	"Here the remains of 50,000 people, Russians, Jews, Lithuanians and others killed by the Nazis, are burried."
	"This is the place where Nazis and their assistants killed more than 30,000 Jews from Lithuania and other European countries"
	French memorial plaque at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	French memorial plaque at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania.
	"Eternal remembrance of the victims of fascism"

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