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Šaukėnai is a village in Šiauliai County in northern-central Lithuania. In 2011 it had a population of 596.[1]
Šaukėnai | |
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Town | |
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 Coat of arms | |
  Šaukėnai Location in Lithuania | |
| Coordinates: 55°48′40″N 22°53′0″E / 55.81111°N 22.88333°E | |
| Country |  Lithuania |
| Ethnographic region | Samogitia |
| County | Šiauliai County |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 596 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Šaukėnai has Šaukėnų Holy Trinity masonry church (built in 1989), a high school, a library, a post office (ZIP code: 86043), an ethnography museum and Šaukėnai manor with park.
History
editOn July 31, 1941, 273 to 300 Jews from the village were murdered by an Einsatzgruppen of Germans and Lithuanian nationalists in a mass execution.[2] They were mostly men, the women and children were taken to Žagarė ghetto.
References
edit- ^ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 13, 2017.
- ^ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania".