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Revision as of 16:41, 7 December 2019
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Viduklė | |
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Town | |
Coordinates: 55°24′10″N 22°53′50″E / 55.40278°N 22.89722°E | |
Country | Lithuania |
Ethnographic region | Samogitia |
County | Kaunas County |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 1,678 |
Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
Viduklė (Polish: Widukle) 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.
- This article was initially translated from the Lithuanian Wikipedia.
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