Žeimiai

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Žeimiai
Town

Coat of arms
Žeimiai Location in Lithuania
Coordinates: 55°10′50″N 24°13′20″E / 55.18056°N 24.22222°E / 55.18056; 24.22222
Country	Lithuania
Ethnographic region	Aukštaitija
County	Kaunas County
Municipality	Jonava district municipality
Eldership	Žeimiai eldership
Population (2011)
• Total	860
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Žeimiai (Polish: Żejmy) is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania. As of 2011 it had a population of 860.^[1]

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Before the Holocaust, the town had a Jewish population who were murdered in 1941 in mass executions perpetrated an einsatzgruppen of Germans and Lithuanian collaborators.^[2]^[3]

Polish architect Wacław Michniewicz, who was responsible for designing many buildings in Lithuania, designed the church in the town, and was buried in the churchyard there in 1947.^[4]

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^ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 2, 2017.
^ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania". holocaustatlas.lt. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
^ "המכון הבין-לאומי לחקר השואה - יד ושם". yadvashem.org. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
^ Balbus, Tomasz (2023-12-18). "Wacław Michniewicz, architekt i inżynier miejski – Kurier Wileński". kurierwilenski.lt (in Polish). Retrieved 2024-01-10.

Parts of this article were initially translated from the Lithuanian Wikipedia.

v t e Kaunas County
Municipalities	Birštonas Jonava Kaišiadorys Kaunas (city) Kaunas (district) Kėdainiai Prienai Raseiniai
Cities	Ariogala Birštonas Ežerėlis Garliava Jieznas Jonava Kaišiadorys Kaunas Kėdainiai Prienai Raseiniai Vilkija Žiežmariai
Towns	Akademija, Kaunas Akademija, Kėdainiai Babtai Balbieriškis Betygala Čekiškė Dotnuva Girkalnis Gudžiūnai Josvainiai Kačerginė Karmėlava Krakės Kruonis Kulautuva Lapės Lyduvėnai Nemakščiai Pagiriai Pakuonis Panoteriai Pernarava Rukla Rumšiškės Šėta Šiluva Surviliškis Truskava Vandžiogala Veiveriai Viduklė Žaiginys Zapyškis Žasliai Žeimiai
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