Nemakščiai

Nemakščiai
Town

Coat of arms
Nemakščiai
Location in Lithuania
Coordinates: 55°25′50″N 22°46′10″E / 55.43056°N 22.76944°E / 55.43056; 22.76944Coordinates: 55°25′50″N 22°46′10″E / 55.43056°N 22.76944°E / 55.43056; 22.76944
Country  Lithuania
Ethnographic region Samogitia
County Kaunas County
Population (2011)
 • Total 748
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)

Nemakščiai is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania. In 2011 it had a population of 748.[1]

History

The Jewish population was important in the town. In 1941, the Jews were massacred by an Einsatzgruppen. Different mass executions occurred. One of them was in August 22, 340 women and children were murdered[2] while the Jewish men were taken to the railway station of Viduklė for slave work, where they were later killed.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 14, 2017.
  2. ↑ http://www.holocaustatlas.lt/EN/#a_atlas/search//page/1/item/187/
  3. ↑ http://www.holocaustatlas.lt/EN/#a_atlas/search//page/1/item/121/
  • This article was initially translated from the Lithuanian Wikipedia.


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