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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Žeimiai

Žeimiai (Polish: Żejmy) is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania. As of 2011 it had a population of 860.

History

Before the Holocaust, the town had a Jewish population who were murdered in 1941 in mass executions perpetrated an einsatzgruppen of Germans and Lithuanian collaborators.

Polish architect Wacław Michniewicz, who was responsible for designing many buildings in Lithuania, designed the church in the town, and was buried in the churchyard there in 1947.