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Šaukėnai is a village in Šiauliai County in northern-central Lithuania. In 2011 it had a population of 596.[1]
Šaukėnai has Šaukėnų Holy Trinity masonry church (built in 1989), a high school, a library, a post office (ZIP code: 86043), an ethnography museum and Šaukėnai manor with park.
History
On July 31, 1941, 273 to 300 Jews from the village were murdered by an Einsatzgruppen of Germans and Lithuanian nationalists in a mass execution.[2]
They were mostly men, the women and children were taken to Žagarėghetto.
References
^"2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 13, 2017.
