Kaltanėnai ( pl, Kołtyniany) is a town in Švenčionys district municipality,

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, east

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. According to the Lithuanian census of 2011, the town has a population of 204 people. The town has a Catholic church.

History

In July 1941, 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 Lithuanian collaborators murdered the local Jewish population in several mass executions.

References

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