Nevarėnai ( Samogitian: ''Nevarienā'', ) is a town in

Telšiai County Telšiai County () is one of ten counties of Lithuania, counties in Lithuania. It is in the west of the country, and its Capital (political), capital is Telšiai. There are Lithuanians (98.7%), Latvians (0.1%), Russians (0.9%), and others (0.3%) ...

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, 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, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 552 people.

History

During the Second World War, 150 Jews from the town were massacred in mass executions 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 imp ...

References

Towns in Lithuania Towns in Telšiai County Telšiai District Municipality Telshevsky Uyezd Holocaust locations in Lithuania {{TelšiaiCounty-geo-stub