Skaudvilė (, Samogitian: ''Skaudvėlė'', german: Skaudwill, pl, Skaudwile) is a

city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

in the

Tauragė district municipality Tauragė District Municipality ( lt, Tauragės rajono savivaldybė) is a municipality in Tauragė County, Lithuania Seniūnijos (Elderships or Wards) The Tauragė district municipality contains 8 ''seniūnijos'' (in English: elderships or wa ...

Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

. It is located north-east of

Tauragė Tauragė (; see other names) is an industrial city in Lithuania, and the capital of Tauragė County. In 2020, its population was 21,520. Tauragė is situated on the Jūra River, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast, and not far from th ...

History

During the Second World War, in August 1941, the Jewish community of the town was massacred in a mass execution 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 ...

. 300 Jews were killed.

Gallery

File:SkaudvilėsPolicijosNuovada.JPG, Skaudvilė

police The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and t ...

station File:SkaudvilėsSpecMokykla.JPG, Skaudvilė special school File:SkaudvilėsAto2.JPG, Exposures in Skaudvilė File:SkaudvilėsGimnazija.JPG, Skaudvilė gymnasium

References

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