Veiviržėnai
Sign in to saveVeiviržėnai () is a small town in Klaipėda County, in northwestern Lithuania, in the historic region of Samogitia. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 840 people.
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Veiviržėnai
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Veiviržėnų Šv. apaštalo evangelisto Mato bažnyčia.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Church of St. Matthew in Veiviržėnai
- Settlement.image_shield
- VeivirzenaiCOA.gif
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- Lithuania
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- Location in Lithuania
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- 20px Klaipėda County
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- Municipality
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_total
- 840
- Settlement.timezone
- EET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +2
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- EEST
- Settlement.utc_offset_DST
- +3
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Lithuania
- Located in
- Klaipėda County
- Population
- 840
- Elevation
- 51
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Veiviržėnų Šv. apaštalo evangelisto Mato bažnyčia.JPG
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- Veiviržėnai
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- P8168
- Dr. Popaul
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- History
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Veiviržėnai () is a small town in Klaipėda County, in northwestern Lithuania, in the historic region of Samogitia. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 840 people.
==History== thumb|left|Monument built to commemorate 500 years Veiviržėnai jubilee During World War II, it was first occupied by the Soviet Union from 1940, then by Nazi Germany from 1941, and then by the Soviet Union again from 1944. In September 1941, 300-400 Jewish women and children were murdered in Veiviržėnai by Germans and Lithuanian collaborators. The Jewish men were already murdered in July 1941, women were kept in the summer in forced labor for local farmers. The priest helped by the mayor tried to stop the massacre but were unsuccessful in stopping the massacre.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Veiviržėnai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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