Girkalnis is a small town in
Kaunas County
Kaunas County ( lt, Kauno apskritis) is one of ten counties of Lithuania
The territory of Lithuania is divided into 10 counties ( Lithuanian: singular ''apskritis'', plural ''apskritys''), all named after their capitals. The counties are ...
in central Lithuania. As of 2011 it had a population of 877.
History
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
in the context of Einsatzgruppen, Shoah by bullets.
References
Towns in Lithuania
Towns in Kaunas County
Holocaust locations in Lithuania
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