Rozalimas

Rozalimas
Town

Coat of arms
Rozalimas
Location in Lithuania
Coordinates: 55°53′30″N 23°53′0″E / 55.89167°N 23.88333°E / 55.89167; 23.88333Coordinates: 55°53′30″N 23°53′0″E / 55.89167°N 23.88333°E / 55.89167; 23.88333
Country  Lithuania
Ethnographic region Samogitia
County Šiauliai County
Population (2011)
 • Total 746
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)

Rozalimas is a small town in Šiauliai County in northern-central Lithuania. As of 2011 it had a population of 746.[1]

History

The village had an important Jewish community before the Holocaust in Lithuania.[2] After the German invasion of Lithuania in June 1941, Lithuanian nationalists took over local rule. They murdered some of their Jewish neighbors. The rest were transferred to neighboring Pakruojus, and there murdered together with the local Jews on August 4, 1941.[3]

References

  • This article was initially translated from the Lithuanian Wikipedia.
  1. ↑ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  2. ↑ http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_lita/lit_00632.html
  3. ↑ http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/rozalimas/


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