Žeimiai

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Town in Aukštaitija, Lithuania

Coat of arms

55°10′50″N 24°13′20″E / 55.18056°N 24.22222°E / 55.18056; 24.22222Country

LithuaniaEthnographic regionAukštaitijaCounty

Kaunas CountyMunicipalityJonava district municipalityEldershipŽeimiai eldershipPopulation

(2011)

• Total860Time zoneUTC+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.