Seirijai

Seirijai
Town

Coat of arms
Seirijai
Location in Lithuania
Coordinates: 54°13′50″N 23°48′50″E / 54.23056°N 23.81389°E / 54.23056; 23.81389Coordinates: 54°13′50″N 23°48′50″E / 54.23056°N 23.81389°E / 54.23056; 23.81389
Country  Lithuania
Ethnographic region Dzūkija
County Alytus County
Population (2011)
 • Total 788
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)

Seirijai (Polish: Sereje, German: Serrey) is a small town in Alytus County in southern Lithuania. In 2011 it had a population of 788.[1]

History

From 1383 to 1398 Seirijai was in the State of the Teutonic Order, and from 1691 to 1793 it formed a small exclave of Prussia within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Alexander Ziskind Maimon, Lithuanian Jewish author and scholar of the Talmud and Mishnah was born in the city in 1809.

On September 11, 1941, 953 Jews from Seirijai were murdered in the Baraučiškės Forest, including 229 men, 384 women and 340 children. The mass execution was perpetrated by Rollkommando Hamann / 1st Battalion 3rd Unit led by Norkus and Obelenis; Lithuanian Activists Front members from Seirijai. 2003 approved Seirijai coat of arms. [2]

References

  1. ↑ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  2. ↑ http://www.holocaustatlas.lt/EN/#a_atlas/search//page/1/item/44/


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