Official Name: | Vainutas |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Lithuania |
Pushpin Label Position: | Location in Lithuania |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Lithuania |
Subdivision Type1: | County |
Subdivision Name1: | Klaipėda County |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Total: | 746 |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 55.3639°N 21.8667°W |
Vainutas is a small town in Klaipėda County, in northwestern Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 746 people.[1]
During the Second World War, the Jewish community was assassinated in a mass execution perpetrated by an einsatzgruppen.[2] There is a monument on the site of the massacre.