Kalnujai

Village in Lithuania
Coat of arms of Kalnujai
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55°19′41″N 23°5′38″E / 55.32806°N 23.09389°E / 55.32806; 23.09389Country LithuaniaCountyKaunas CountyMunicipalityRaseiniai District MunicipalityPopulation
 (2011)
 • Total402Time zoneUTC+2 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Kalnujai is a village in Raseiniai District Municipality in Lithuania with a population of 402 inhabitants (2011).[1]

History

During the summer of 1941, an Einsatzgruppen of German and Lithuanian nationalists murdered the Jews of the nearby town of Raseiniai and the surroundings on a site in Kalnujai. Hundred of Jews died in the mass executions.[2] A memorial is built on the site of the massacre.

References

  1. ^ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 21, 2017.
  2. ^ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania".

External links

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