Žeimelis is a small town in northern Lithuania, 40 km to the north from Pakruojis, near the border with Latvia.

Field Marshal Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly was baptized in the Lutheran church on December 27, 1761.

In August 1941, a total of 160 Jews from Žeimelis were murdered by an Einsatzgruppe.

The mass execution was perpetrated by Germans and local collaborators.

After the Soviet occupation, Lithuanian partisans from Prisikėlimas military district were active in Žeimelis and its surroundings.