Nemakščiai
Town
Coat of arms of Nemakščiai
Coat of arms
Nemakščiai is located in Lithuania
Nemakščiai
Nemakščiai
Location in Lithuania
Coordinates: 55°25′50″N 22°46′10″E / 55.43056°N 22.76944°E / 55.43056; 22.76944
Country Lithuania
Ethnographic regionSamogitia
County Kaunas County
Population
 (2011)
 • Total748
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Nemakščiai is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania. In 2011 it had a population of 748.[1]

History

The Jewish population was important in the town. In 1941, the Jews were massacred by an Einsatzgruppen. Different mass executions occurred. One of them was on August 22, 340 women and children were murdered[2] while the Jewish men were taken to the railway station of Viduklė for slave work, where they were later killed.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 14, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania".
  3. ↑ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania".


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