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Žeimiai | |
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Town | |
Coordinates: 55°10′50″N 24°13′20″E / 55.18056°N 24.22222°E | |
Country | Lithuania |
Ethnographic region | Aukštaitija |
County | Kaunas County |
Municipality | Jonava district municipality |
Eldership | Žeimiai eldership |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 860 |
Time zone | UTC+2 ( EET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+3 ( EEST) |
Žeimiai ( Polish: Żejmy) is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania. As of 2011 it had a population of 860. [1]
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. [2] [3]
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. [4]