Skaudvilė (, Samogitian: ''Skaudvėlė'') is a

town A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...

in the Tauragė district municipality of

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 ...

. It is located north-east of

Tauragė Tauragė (; see #Names and etymology, other names) is an industrial city in Lithuania, and the capital of Tauragė County. In 2020, its population was 20,956. Tauragė is situated on the Jūra, Jūra River, close to the border with the Kaliningr ...

History

During

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, the town was under Soviet occupation from 1940, and then under

German occupation German-occupied Europe, or Nazi-occupied Europe, refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet states, by the (armed forces) and the government of Nazi Germany at ...

from 1941 to 1944. In August 1941, the Jewish community of the town was massacred in a mass execution perpetrated by an ''

Einsatzgruppe (, ; 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 impl ...

''. 300 Jews were killed.

Gallery

File:SkaudvilėsPolicijosNuovada.JPG, Skaudvilė

police The police are Law enforcement organization, a constituted body of Law enforcement officer, people empowered by a State (polity), state with the aim of Law enforcement, enforcing the law and protecting the Public order policing, public order ...

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

References

Cities in Lithuania Cities in Tauragė County Rossiyensky Uyezd Holocaust locations in Lithuania {{TauragėCounty-geo-stub