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Žeimelis

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Country
  
Lithuania

County
  
Šiauliai County

First mentioned
  
1500

Population
  
1,216 (2001)

Ethnographic region
  
Aukštaitija

Capital of
  
Žeimelis elderate

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Local time
  
Monday 5:02 AM

Žeimelis

Weather
  
7°C, Wind W at 6 km/h, 95% Humidity

Municipality
  
Pakruojis District Municipality

Žeimelis (formerly: Zaumel) is a town in northern Lithuania, 40 km to the north from Pakruojis, near the border with Latvia. It is a centre of an elderate.

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Map of %C5%BDeimelis, Lithuania

History

A school first mentioned in 1596 (at the Lutheran church). Field Marshal Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly was baptized in the Lutheran church on December 27, 1761. High school was established in 1920. Agriculture school founded in 1937.

In August 1941, a total of 160 Jews from Žeimelis were murdered by an Einsatzgruppen. The mass execution was perpetrated by Germans and local Lithuaniens collaborators. After the murders, remaining Jewish property was distributed or sold to local inhabitants.

Famous people

  • Abraham Isaac Kook, chief rabbi of Palestine, and philosopher of religious Zionism.
  • Zvi Yehuda Kook, son of r. Abraham Isaac, and head of Mercaz HaRav yeshiva.
  • Theodor Grotthuss, the originator of the first law of photochemistry, author of the first theory of electrolysis
  • Juozas Šliavas, historian

    • References

    Žeimelis Wikipedia
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