Viduklė ( bat-smg, Vėdoklė) is a small town in a
Raseiniai district municipality,
Kaunas County
Kaunas County ( lt, Kauno apskritis) is one of ten counties of Lithuania
The territory of Lithuania is divided into 10 counties ( Lithuanian: singular ''apskritis'', plural ''apskritys''), all named after their capitals. The counties are ...
, central-western
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 ...
. In 2011, it had a population of 1,678.
History
221 Jews lived in the town according to the 1923 census.
The German army entered the town on June 23, 1941 and set up a ghetto to imprison the Jewish population. Starting on July 24, 1941, hundred of Jews living in the city were shot by Germans and Lithuanians collaborators.
References
Towns in Lithuania
Towns in Kaunas County
Duchy of Samogitia
Rossiyensky Uyezd
Holocaust locations in Lithuania
Raseiniai District Municipality
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