Žeimiai

Žeimiai (Polish: Żejmy) is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania the center of the Žeimiai Eldership.

[1] 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.

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