Adutiškis (; pl, Hoduciszki; be, Гадуцішкі) is a town in
Švenčionys district municipality, in
Vilnius County
Vilnius County ( lt, Vilniaus apskritis) is the largest of the 10 counties of Lithuania, located in the east of the country around the city Vilnius. On 1 July 2010, the county administration was abolished, and since that date, Vilnius County re ...
, in northeast
Lithuania
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. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 689 people.
[ The town is located near Kamaja river, and at the border with ]Belarus
Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...
. There are the Church of St. Virgin Mary Scapular, built in 1913, Adutiškis Secondary School, customs office, post office and retirement home in Adutiškis
History
In autumn of 1941, the Jews from the town were taken to the Švenčionėliai military training ground and executed along with other Jews of the Švenčionys district. This crime was perpetrated by an ''Einsatzgruppen
(, ; also ' task forces') were (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe. The had an integral role in the im ...
'' of Adutiškis policemen.
References
Belarus–Lithuania border
Towns in Lithuania
Towns in Vilnius County
Sventsyansky Uyezd
Wilno Voivodeship (1926–1939)
Holocaust locations in Lithuania
Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust
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