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Šaukėnai | |
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Coordinates: 55°48′40″N 22°53′0″E / 55.81111°N 22.88333°E | |
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Ethnographic region | Samogitia |
County | Šiauliai County |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 596 |
Time zone | UTC+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.
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.
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Šaukėnai | |
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Town | |
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Coordinates: 55°48′40″N 22°53′0″E / 55.81111°N 22.88333°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Ethnographic region | Samogitia |
County | Šiauliai County |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 596 |
Time zone | UTC+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.
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.