Padubysis

Padubysis
Village
Padubysis is located in Lithuania
Padubysis
Padubysis
Location of Padubysis
Coordinates: 55°33′43″N 23°04′37″E / 55.56194°N 23.07694°E / 55.56194; 23.07694
Country Lithuania
Ethnographic regionSamogitia
CountyŠiauliai County
MunicipalityKelmė District Municipality
EldershipLoliai eldership
Population
 (2011)
 • Total
24
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Padubysis is a village in the Kelmė District Municipality in Lithuania.

History

Before World War II, the village was a shtetl; the majority of the inhabitants were Jews until the German invasion of Russia in June 1941.[1] On August 15 and 16, 1941, 120 Jews from Padubysis and the nearby villages of Lyduvėnai and Bulavėnai were murdered in a mass execution perpetrated by German Einsatzgruppen and local Lithuanian collaborators. [2] A stele has been erected on the site of the massacre.

References

  1. ^ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania". Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  2. ^ "YAHAD - IN UNUM". Retrieved 14 June 2016.