Marcinkonys ( Polish: ''Marcinkańce'') is a village in Varėna district,

Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuan ...

, located 21 km. south-west of

Varėna Varėna (; pl, Orany; yi, אוראַן ''Oran'') is a city in Dzūkija, Lithuania. History The town was founded in 1862 near the Warsaw – Saint Petersburg Railway, south of Sena Varėna (Old Varėna). At that time it was a small settlement ...

. It is the administrative center of the

Marcinkonys Eldership Marcinkonys Eldership ( lt, Marcinkonių seniūnija) is a Lithuanian eldership, located in the south western part of Varėna District Municipality. Geography Marcinkonys Eldership is mostly covered by the Dainava Forest and it is one of the most ...

and it houses the administrations of the Dzūkija National Park and Čepkeliai Nature Reserve. According to the 2020 estimate, it had 591 residents. Throughout the history the place was under Russian, Polish, and Soviet rules and therefore it may be referred to by multiple names and spellings, including Marcinkańce (Polish name), Martsinkantse (phonemic transliteration of the Polish name), Martsinkantsy (transliteration of the Russified Polish name), and Martsinkonis (transliteration of Russian Марцинконис). United States Board of Geographic Names - Marcinkonys. Accessed January 23, 2014. The settlement was first mentioned in 1637 as a camp of foresters. It began growing after completion of the railway station in its location for the Warsaw – Saint Petersburg Railway in 1864. During the Holocaust, the village had the

Marcinkonys Ghetto Marcinkonys or Marcinkańce Ghetto was a small Jewish ghetto established during the Holocaust in Marcinkonys (pre-war Second Polish Republic, war-time Bezirk Bialystok, post-war Lithuanian SSR). It existed from around November 1941 to November 1 ...

for the Lithuanian Jews. Some Jews escaped during the liquidation of the ghetto and managed to survive the war. Marcinkonys village is located c. from Druskininkai, from

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Villages in Alytus County Varėna District Municipality Białystok Voivodeship (1919–1939) Belastok Region Holocaust locations in Lithuania {{AlytusCounty-geo-stub