Girkalnis

Town in Samogitia, Lithuania
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55°18′40″N 23°12′10″E / 55.31111°N 23.20278°E / 55.31111; 23.20278Country LithuaniaEthnographic regionSamogitiaCounty Kaunas CountyMunicipalityRaseiniai district municipalityEldershipGirkalnis eldershipCapital ofGirkalnis eldershipPopulation
 (2011)
 • Total877Time zoneUTC+2 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Girkalnis is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania. As of 2011 it had a population of 877.[1]

History

From July to September 1941, about 1,000 Jews from Raseiniai, Betygala and Girkalnis were massacred in the city. Those mass executions were done by Germans and local policemen[2] in the context of Shoah by bullets.

References

  1. ^ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 15, 2017.
  2. ^ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania".
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