Viduklė () is a small town in a Raseiniai district municipality,

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, central-western

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. In 2011, it had a population of 1,678.

History

221 Jews lived in the town according to the 1923 census. The German army entered the town on June 23, 1941, and set up a ghetto to imprison the Jewish population. Starting on July 24, 1941, hundred of Jews living in the city were shot by Germans and Lithuanians collaborators.

References

Towns in Lithuania Towns in Kaunas County Holocaust locations in Lithuania Raseiniai District Municipality {{KaunasCounty-geo-stub