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Workshop at the museum
On November 20-21, we invite you to participate in the workshop ASPECTS OF THE HOLOCAUST IN VISUAL HISTORY. Visual History of Jewish Life and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, which will take place at Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum. Ninth Fort is a historically significant space for this event: in 1941, it was one of the places where deportations from Nazi Germany were carried out.The workshop aims to present and analyse photo and film materials, discussing how this valuable visual content can be utilised for research purposes, in museums and other educational settings. The workshop was inspired by the Berlin-based research project #LastSeen. Pictures of Nazi deportations, which identifies and analyses photographs of Jews taken shortly before the deportations.More information about the project can be found HERE.Workshop intends to foster discussions among advanced students, historians, and cultural studies scholars, mainly from the Baltic region, to explore the following issues: What is known about the deportations of Jews from Germany and Austria to Kaunas, Riga, and other cities? Are there any eyewitness testimonies, documents, or photographs of the deportations from Germany and Austria? Photographs as historical sources – how can photographs be evaluated as documents? Which photos from events of the persecution and murder of Jews that took ...
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MUSEUM NIGHT 2025
On Museum Night (May 17), we invite you to spend the evening at the Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum, where an immersive musical storytelling performance-walk and free admission to the Ninth Fort exhibitions await. In the exhibitions, silent exhibits preserving memories of the past will allow you to take a close look at the complex 20th-century history of Lithuania.PROGRAMME18:00 Storytelling Performance-Walk “Songs of the Partisan Women” | Milda Varnauskaitė, Ariane Pawin, Oksana Zhuravel-Ohorodnyk19:00–23:00 Free admission to the museum exhibitions (Žemaičių plentas 75, Kaunas)SONGS OF THE PARTISAN WOMENWhat does it mean to resist? To not give in and to maintain strength even in the most terrible moments?“Songs of the Partisan Women” is a trilingual musical storytelling performance-walk about women combatants in Lithuania, France, and Ukraine. From yesterday until today.In France, during the Second World War, with weapons in their hands or typewriters under their arms, carrying suitcases or producing false documents – women occupied all positions of resistance against the Nazis.In Lithuania, from 1944, wanting to fight against the Soviet occupation, they, like men, went underground. Together with them, they went into the forest, fought, and became involved in the partisan war: working as liaisons, hiding in bunkers, and writing poems.In Ukraine, ...
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GARDEN OF JUNE 2025
On June 13, Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum invites you to the artistic evening “Garden of June 2025”. This year’s program will combine literature, contemporary dance and music. The event will feature the presentation of Algis Vyšniūnas’ latest book, a performance by the Kaunas Dance Theatre “Aura”, and the musical compositions of the band “Baltos varnos”, Kazimieras Likša and other performers. Let’s gather in the “Garden of June” on June 13, 2025!The event is free, no registration is required.PROGRAMME17.00–18.30 Meeting with Algis Vyšniūnas and the presentation of his latest book (in Lithuanian)18.30–21.20 Creative path for children19.00–19.45 Kaunas Dance Theatre “Aura” performance “I Wish to Be the Blossom of a Fern”20.00–21.20 Sung Poetry | “Baltos varnos”, Kazimieras Likša, Rugilė Balandytė, Pijus Mašutko and Dominyka KairytėBOOK PRESENTATION (in Lithuanian). Architecture professor, author of historical books Algis Vyšniūnas will present his book about the Kengir uprising, published this year. After the restoration of Lithuania’s independence, A. Vyšniūnas has organised several expeditions to the places of deportation and imprisonment of Lithuanian residents: Kazakhstan, Magadan, Yakutia, and led the “Mission Siberia” project to Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. During the meeting at the museum, the author will talk about the shocking history of the Kengir uprising and the book’s ...
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Opening of the Exhibition “Bakhmut. The Faces of Genocide 1942 | 2022”
This is not history any more. This is today’s reality.For the first time, the exhibition from Ukraine “Bakhmut. The Faces of Genocide 1942 | 2022” is brought to the European Union. The exhibition, organised by the National Historical Memorial Reserve “Babyn Yar,” presents a retrospective of the tragedies of Bakhmut, past and present, and reveals the horrific picture of a genocide with the same face: a totalitarian regime with an ideology of hatred.The exhibition will be on display at Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum (Žemaičių pl. 73, Kaunas) from August 23 to October 29 this year.The exhibition will symbolically open on the eve of Ukraine’s Independence Day on August 23, 2024 (Friday) at 11:00 a.m., also commemorating the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism and the Baltic Way Day.PROGRAMME of the opening event11:00 am. Welcome speech11:20 am. Presentation of the exhibition (with the participation of the exhibition authors)11:40 am. Musical works performed by Viktor Rekalo, cellist of the State Vilnius Quartet (Lithuania) and Kseniia Kosarieva, first violin of the Prime Orchestra (Kharkiv, Ukraine)12:10 pm. Independent visit of the exhibitionThe opening event is free of charge; it will be held in Lithuanian and English.The event is open to the public and will be filmed and ...
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