Žeimiai

Žeimiai

Žeimiai

Town in Aukštaitija, Lithuania


Žeimiai (Polish: Żejmy) is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania. As of 2011 it had a population of 860.[1]

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History

Before the Holocaust, the town had a Jewish population who were murdered in 1941 in mass executions perpetrated an einsatzgruppen of Germans and Lithuanian collaborators.[2][3]

Polish architect Wacław Michniewicz, who was responsible for designing many buildings in Lithuania, designed the church in the town, and was buried in the churchyard there in 1947.[4]


References

  1. "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 2, 2017.
  2. "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania". holocaustatlas.lt. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
  3. Balbus, Tomasz (2023-12-18). "Wacław Michniewicz, architekt i inżynier miejski – Kurier Wileński". kurierwilenski.lt (in Polish). Retrieved 2024-01-10.
  • Parts of this article were initially translated from the Lithuanian Wikipedia.



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