Nemakščiai | |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Lithuania |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Lithuania |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Lithuania |
Subdivision Type1: | Ethnographic region |
Subdivision Name1: | Samogitia |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Kaunas County |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type4: | Eldership |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Total: | 748 |
Coordinates: | 55.4306°N 22.7694°W |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Nemakščiai is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania. In 2011 it had a population of 748.[1]
The Jewish population was important in the town. In 1941, the Jews were massacred by an Einsatzgruppen. Different mass executions occurred. One of them was on August 22, 340 women and children were murdered[2] while the Jewish men were taken to the railway station of Viduklė for slave work, where they were later killed.[3]