Žiežmariai

Žiežmariai
City

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Žiežmariai
Location of Žiežmariai
Coordinates: 54°48′0″N 24°27′0″E / 54.80000°N 24.45000°E / 54.80000; 24.45000Coordinates: 54°48′0″N 24°27′0″E / 54.80000°N 24.45000°E / 54.80000; 24.45000
Country  Lithuania
Ethnographic region Aukštaitija
County Kaunas County
Municipality Kaišiadorys district municipality
Eldership Žiežmariai eldership
Capital of Žiežmariai eldership
First mentioned 1348
Granted city rights 1501
Population (2017)
 • Total 3,268
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)

Žiežmariai ( pronunciation ) is a city in the Kaišiadorys district municipality, Lithuania. It is located 6 km (3.7 mi) south of Kaišiadorys.

History

The Jewish population was important in the town since the 16th century and represented 50% of the total population before World War II. In 1941, hundreds of Jews from the city and from nearby villages of Kaisiadorys and Žasliaisont are murdered in mass executions perpetrated by an einsatzgruppen of Germans and Lithuanians collaborators.[1]

Žiežmariai has a rare, surviving wooden synagogue.[2]

Notable people

References

  1. ↑ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania". holocaustatlas.lt. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  2. ↑ Center for Jewish Art (2004). "Preserved Wooden Synagogues in Lithuania". The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Retrieved on December 17, 2008.http://cja.huji.ac.il/Architecture/Lithuania/Wooden-synagogues-Lithuania.html


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