Viduklė
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]
Viduklė | |
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Town | |
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 Coat of arms | |
  Viduklė Location in Lithuania | |
| Coordinates: 55°24′10″N 22°53′50″E | |
| Country |  Lithuania |
| Ethnographic region | Samogitia |
| County |  Kaunas County |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 1,678 |
| Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
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
- "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 17, 2017.
- "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania". www.holocaustatlas.lt.
- "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania". www.holocaustatlas.lt.
- "YAHAD - IN UNUM". yahadmap.org.
- This article was initially translated from the Lithuanian Wikipedia.
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