Žeimiai
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For the village in Varėna district municipality, Alytus County, Lithuania, see Žeimiai (Varėna).
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Town in Aukštaitija, Lithuania
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Coat of arms of Žeimiai Coat of arms | |
Žeimiai is located in Lithuania Žeimiai Žeimiai Location in Lithuania | |
| Coordinates: 55°10′50′′N 24°13′20′′E / 55.18056°N 24.22222°E / 55.18056; 24.22222 | |
| 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 the center of the Žeimiai Eldership. As of 2011 it had a population of 860.[1]
History
[edit ]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年07月15日.
- ^ "המכון הבין-לאומי לחקר השואה - יד ושם". yadvashem.org. Retrieved 2017年07月15日.
- ^ Balbus, Tomasz (2023年12月18日). "Wacław Michniewicz, architekt i inżynier miejski – Kurier Wileński". kurierwilenski.lt (in Polish). Retrieved 2024年01月10日.
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