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Viduklė
Viduklė (Samogitian: Vėdoklė) is a small town in a Raseiniai district municipality, Kaunas County, central-western Lithuania. In 2011, it had a population of 1,678.

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. Starting on July 24, 1941, hundred of Jews living in the city were shot by Germans and Lithuanians collaborators.

References

  1. ^ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  2. ^ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania". www.holocaustatlas.lt.
  3. ^ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania". www.holocaustatlas.lt.
  4. ^ "YAHAD - IN UNUM". yahadmap.org.
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