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Kalnujai

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Country
  
Lithuania

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

County
  
Kaunas County

Population
  
452 (2001)

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Municipality
  
Raseiniai District Municipality

Kalnujai is a village in Raseiniai District Municipality in Lithuania with a population of 452 inhabitants.

Contents

Map of Kalnujai, Lithuania

History

During the summer of 1941, an Einsatzgruppen of German and Lithuanian nationalists murdered the Jews of the nearby town of Raseiniai and the surroundings on a site in Kalnujai. Hundred of Jews died in the mass executions . A memorial is built on the site of the massacre.

References

Kalnujai Wikipedia