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Žeimiai

Coordinates: 55°10′50″N 24°13′20″E / 55.18056°N 24.22222°E / 55.18056; 24.22222
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Žeimiai
Town
Coat of arms of Žeimiai
Žeimiai is located in Lithuania
Žeimiai
Žeimiai
Location in Lithuania
Coordinates: 55°10′50″N 24°13′20″E / 55.18056°N 24.22222°E / 55.18056; 24.22222
Country Lithuania
Ethnographic regionAukštaitija
County Kaunas County
MunicipalityJonava district municipality
EldershipŽeimiai eldership
Population
 (2011)
 • Total860
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Žeimiai is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania. As of 2011 it had a population of 860.[1]

History

Before the Holocaust, the town had a Jewish population who were murdered in 1941 in mass executions perpetrated an einsatzgruppen of Germans and Lithuanians collaborators.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 2, 2017.
  2. ^ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania". holocaustatlas.lt. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
  3. ^ "המכון הבין-לאומי לחקר השואה - יד ושם". yadvashem.org. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
  • Parts of this article was initially translated from the Lithuanian Wikipedia.