Girkalnis | |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Lithuania |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Lithuania |
Coordinates: | 55.3111°N 23.2028°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Lithuania |
Subdivision Type1: | Ethnographic region |
Subdivision Name1: | Samogitia |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Kaunas County |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Raseiniai district municipality |
Subdivision Type4: | Eldership |
Subdivision Name4: | Girkalnis eldership |
Subdivision Type5: | Capital of |
Subdivision Name5: | Girkalnis eldership |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Total: | 877 |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Girkalnis is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania. As of 2011 it had a population of 877.[1]
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[2] in the context of Shoah by bullets.