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Country
  
Eldership
  
Želva eldership

Population
  
516 (2001)

County
  
Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

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Municipality
  
Ukmergė District Municipality

For the town in Belarus, see Zel’va.

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Map of %C5%BDelva, Lithuania

Želva is a town in Ukmergė district municipality, Vilnius County, east Lithuania. According to the 2001 census, the town has a population of 516 people.

History

The town has a Catholic church and a synagogue. Želva is the birthplace of Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Aaron Klug.

On July 26 and 27, 1941, the Jews of the town are murdered in a mass execution perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppen and local Lithuanian nationalists. 60 people were killed.

References

Želva Wikipedia


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