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Viduklė | |
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Town | |
Coordinates: 55°24′10″N 22°53′50″E / 55.40278°N 22.89722°E | |
Country | Lithuania |
Ethnographic region | Samogitia |
County | Kaunas County |
Population (2021) | |
• Total | 1,425 |
Time zone | UTC+02:00 ( EET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+03:00 ( EEST) |
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. [1]
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. [2] Starting on July 24, 1941, hundred of Jews living in the city were shot by Germans and Lithuanians collaborators. [3] [4]