Šaukėnai

Coordinates: 55°48′40″N 22°53′0″E / 55.81111°N 22.88333°E / 55.81111; 22.88333
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Šaukėnai
Town
Coat of arms of Šaukėnai
Šaukėnai is located in Lithuania
Šaukėnai
Šaukėnai
Location in Lithuania
Coordinates: 55°48′40″N 22°53′0″E / 55.81111°N 22.88333°E / 55.81111; 22.88333
Country Lithuania
Ethnographic regionSamogitia
CountyŠiauliai County
Population
 (2011)
 • Total596
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Šaukėnai is a village in Šiauliai County in northern-central Lithuania. In 2011 it had a population of 596.[1]

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[edit]

On 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]

  1. ^ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  2. ^ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania".