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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]

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Viduklė
Town
Coat of arms
Viduklė Location in Lithuania
Coordinates: 55°24′10″N 22°53′50″E
Country	Lithuania
Ethnographic region	Samogitia
County	Kaunas County
Population  (2011)
• Total	1,678
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)

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.[2] Starting on July 24, 1941, hundred of Jews living in the city were shot by Germans and Lithuanians collaborators.[3][4]

References

• This article was initially translated from the Lithuanian Wikipedia.

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