Želva is a town in Ukmergė district municipality, Vilnius County, east Lithuania.

According to the Lithuanian census of 2011, the town has a population of 457 people.

Želva is the birthplace of Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Aaron Klug.

[2] On July 26 and 27, 1941, the Jews of the town were murdered in a mass execution perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppen and local Lithuanian collaborators.

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