Žeimiai | |
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Town | |
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 Coat of arms | |
  Žeimiai Location in Lithuania | |
| Coordinates: 55°10′50″N 24°13′20″E / 55.18056°N 24.22222°E | |
| Country |  Lithuania |
| Ethnographic region | Aukštaitija |
| County |  Kaunas County |
| Municipality | Jonava district municipality |
| Eldership | Žeimiai eldership |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 860 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Žeimiai (Polish: Żejmy) is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania. As of 2011 it had a population of 860.[1]
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
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- ↑ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 2, 2017.
- ↑ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania". holocaustatlas.lt. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
- ↑ "המכון הבין-לאומי לחקר השואה - יד ושם". yadvashem.org. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
- ↑ 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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