Viduklė

Viduklė

Viduklė

Town in Samogitia, Lithuania


Viduklė (Samogitian: Vėdoklė) is a small town in a Raseiniai district municipality, Kaunas County, central-western Lithuania. In 2011, it had a population of 1,678.[1]

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History

221 Jews lived in the town according to the 1923 census. The German army entered the town on June 23, 1941 and set up a ghetto to imprison the Jewish population.[2] Starting on July 24, 1941, hundred of Jews living in the city were shot by Germans and Lithuanians collaborators.[3][4]


References

  1. "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  2. "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania". www.holocaustatlas.lt.
  3. "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania". www.holocaustatlas.lt.
  4. "YAHAD - IN UNUM". yahadmap.org.



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