Official Name: | Kalnujai |
Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Lithuania |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Kalnujai |
Coordinates: | 55.3281°N 23.0939°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Ethnographic region |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Kaunas County |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Raseiniai District Municipality |
Population Total: | 392 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Kalnujai is a village in Raseiniai District Municipality in Lithuania with a population of 402 inhabitants (2011).[1]
During the summer of 1941, an Einsatzgruppen of German and Lithuanian nationalists murdered the Jews of the nearby town of Raseiniai and the surroundings on a site in Kalnujai. Hundred of Jews died in the mass executions.[2] A memorial is built on the site of the massacre.