Antalieptė () ( pl, Antolepty) is a small town in

Zarasai district municipality Zarasai District Municipality is one of 60 municipalities in Lithuania. It borders with Latvia and Belarus. Local government units The district has the following localities: * 2 cities ('' miestas''): Zarasai (capital) and Dusetos * 3 towns ('' ...

, near the Duseta–

Daugailiai Daugailiai ( pl, Daugiele) is a town in Utena County, Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 325 people. Gallery File:Daugailiai pom.jpg, Forest Brothers The Guerrilla war in the Baltic states was an armed str ...

road and the right bank of the Šventoji riverhead. The town is also 4 km from the village of

Zabičiūnai Zabičiūnai is a village in the Zarasai District Municipality Zarasai District Municipality is one of 60 municipalities in Lithuania. It borders with Latvia and Belarus. Local government units The district has the following localities: * 2 ...

. Antalieptė has a secondary school and post office (postode: LT-32013). In

Šventoji valley Šventoji (literally: feminine gender of ''the holy'') can refer to these objects in Lithuania: *Šventoji River, 246-kilometer long tributary of Neris *Šventoji River (Baltic), 73-kilometer long tributary of the Baltic Sea *Šventoji, Lithuania ...

there is the

Antalieptė Cross Discovery church Antalieptė () ( pl, Antolepty) is a small town in Zarasai district municipality, near the Duseta–Daugailiai road and the right bank of the Šventoji riverhead. The town is also 4 km from the village of Zabičiūnai. Antalieptė has a ...

, also there was

Antalieptė Discalced Carmelites monastery Antalieptė () ( pl, Antolepty) is a small town in Zarasai district municipality, near the Duseta–Daugailiai road and the right bank of the Šventoji riverhead. The town is also 4 km from the village of Zabičiūnai. Antalieptė has a ...

. Antalieptė also has House of Culture, library (from 1941) and a

water mill A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower. It is a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as milling (grinding), rolling, or hammering. Such processes are needed in the production o ...

(built 1855 from broken and round rocks, red bricks and lime; mill was working until 1966).

History

According to the 1897 census, 85.5% of the population of the town was Jewish. The Jews immigrated before World War II or were murdered during the

Holocaust in Nazi occupied Lithuania The Holocaust in Lithuania resulted in the near total destruction of Lithuanian Jews, Lithuanian (Litvaks) and History of the Jews in Poland, Polish Jews, living in ''Generalbezirk Litauen'' of ''Reichskommissariat Ostland'' within the Occupation ...

by both Germans and Lithuanians.http://rujen.ru/index.php/%D0%90%D0%9D%D0%A2%D0%9E%D0%9B%D0%95%D0%9F%D0%A2%D0%95

References

Towns in Lithuania Towns in Utena County Novoalexandrovsky Uyezd Holocaust locations in Lithuania Zarasai District Municipality {{UtenaCounty-geo-stub