Šaukėnai is a village in Šiauliai County in northern-central Lithuania. In 2011 it had a population of 596.[1]

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Šaukėnai
Town
Coat of arms
Šaukėnai Location in Lithuania
Coordinates: 55°48′40″N 22°53′0″E
Country	Lithuania
Ethnographic region	Samogitia
County	Šiauliai County
Population  (2011)
• Total	596
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Šaukėnai has Šaukėnų Holy Trinity masonry church (built in 1989), a high school, a library, a post office (ZIP code: 86043), an ethnography museum and Šaukėnai manor with park.

History

On July 31, 1941, 273 to 300 Jews from the village were murdered by an Einsatzgruppen of Germans and Lithuanian nationalists in a mass execution.[2] They were mostly men, the women and children were taken to Žagarė ghetto.

References

• This article was initially translated from the Lithuanian Wikipedia.

На других языках

[ru] Шаукенай