Country Lithuania County Kaunas County Capital of Girkalnis eldership Local time Tuesday 7:58 AM | Ethnographic region Aukštaitija Eldership Girkalnis eldership Time zone EET (UTC+2) Population 997 (2001) | |
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Weather -2°C, Wind W at 5 km/h, 94% Humidity Municipality Raseiniai District Municipality | ||
Girkalnis is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania. As of 2001 it had a population of 997.
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Map of Girkalnis, Lithuania
History
From July to September 1941, about 1,000 Jews from Raseiniai, Betygala and Girkalnis were massacred in the city. Those mass executions were done by Germans and local policemen in the context of Shoah by bullets.
References
Girkalnis Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA