Žeimiai
Žeimiai (Polish: Żejmy) is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania the center of the Žeimiai Eldership. 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.
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Žeimiai.
- ^ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 2, 2017.
- ^ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania". holocaustatlas.lt. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
- ^ "המכון הבין-לאומי לחקר השואה - יד ושם". yadvashem.org. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
- ^ Balbus, Tomasz (2023-12-18). "Wacław Michniewicz, architekt i inżynier miejski – Kurier Wileński". kurierwilenski.lt (in Polish). Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- Parts of this article were initially translated from the Lithuanian Wikipedia.
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