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]

History

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