Tryškiai (, , ) is a small town in
Telšiai district municipality
Telšiai District Municipality (, Samogitian: ''Telšiū rajuona savivaldībė'') is one of 60 municipalities in Lithuania, containing the city of Telšiai
Telšiai (; Samogitian language, Samogitian: ''Telšē'') is a city in Lithuania with ...
,
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 ...
with a population of about 1,000.
History
In late July 1941, 70 to 80 Jewish men were killed on the banks of the
Virvyte 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 imp ...
of Germans and Lithuanian nationalists.
In the beginning of August the women were told that they would join their husbands, but they were led to
Gruzdžiai and there, they were left in an open field without any shelter and were abused by the Lithuanian guards.
A week later, in the middle of August, they were brought to the Zhager ghetto. On October 2, 1941, they were murdered in the Narishkin estate with 3,000 Jews from
Zagare and the surrounding towns.
Further reading
* Ita Hersch, "My Childhood in Trishik."
Jews in Trishik
References
Historic Jewish communities in Lithuania
Towns in Lithuania
Towns in Telšiai County
Shavelsky Uyezd
Holocaust locations in Lithuania
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