Viduklė

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Town in Samogitia, Lithuania

Coat of arms

55°24′10″N 22°53′50″E / 55.40278°N 22.89722°E / 55.40278; 22.89722Country

LithuaniaEthnographic regionSamogitiaCounty

Kaunas CountyPopulation

(2021)

• Total1,425Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)

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]

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.