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Viduklė  | |
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Town  | |
| Coordinates: 55°24′10″N 22°53′50″E / 55.40278°N 22.89722°E | |
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| Ethnographic region | Samogitia | 
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| Population  (2021)  | |
 • Total  | 1,425 | 
| Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) | 
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) | 
Viduklė (Samogitian: Vėdoklė) is a small town in a Raseiniai district municipality, Kaunas County, central-western Lithuania. In 2011, it had a population of 1,678.[1]
History
[edit]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.[2] Starting on July 24, 1941, hundred of Jews living in the city were shot by Germans and Lithuanians collaborators.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 17, 2017.
 - ^ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania". www.holocaustatlas.lt.
 - ^ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania". www.holocaustatlas.lt.
 - ^ "YAHAD - IN UNUM". yahadmap.org.
 
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