Vainutas is a small town in Klaipėda County, in northwestern

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 ...

. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 746 people.

History

During the Second World War, the Jewish community was assassinated 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 ...

. There is a monument on the site of the massacre.

References

Towns in Lithuania Towns in Klaipėda County Holocaust locations in Lithuania {{KlaipėdaCounty-geo-stub