Girkalnis

Girkalnis is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania. As of 2011 it had a population of 877.

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Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.name: Girkalnis
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.settlement_type: Town
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.image_skyline: Girkalnis. Gatvė.JPG
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.image_caption: Šėtupio street
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.image_shield: Girkalnis COA.jpg
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.pushpin_map: Lithuania
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Lithuania
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_type1: Ethnographic region
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_name1: Samogitia
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_type2: County
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_name2: 20px Kaunas County
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_type3: Municipality
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_name3: Raseiniai district municipality
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_type4: Eldership
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_name4: Girkalnis eldership
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_type5: Capital of
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_name5: Girkalnis eldership

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Instance of: town
Country: Lithuania
Located in: Girkalnis Eldership
Population: 997
Elevation: 98
Capital of: Girkalnis Eldership
Image: Girkalnis. Gatvė.JPG

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Commons category: Girkalnis
described by source: Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
P8168: Khasia

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Girkalnis is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania. As of 2011 it had a population of 877.

==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.

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