Žeimelis

Coat of arms

Žeimelis

Location of Žeimelis

Coordinates: 56°16′N 23°59′E / 56.267°N 23.983°ECoordinates: 56°16′N 23°59′E / 56.267°N 23.983°E

Lithuania

Aukštaitija

Pakruojis district municipality

Capital of

Žeimelis elderate

First mentioned

1500

Population (2001)

• Total

1,216

Time zone

EET (UTC+2)

• Summer (DST)

EEST (UTC+3)

Žeimelis (formerly: Zaumel) is a town in northern Lithuania, 40 km to the north from Pakruojis, near the border with Latvia. It is a centre of an elderate.

A school first mentioned in 1596 (at the Lutheran church). Field Marshal Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly was baptized in the Lutheran church on December 27, 1761. High school was established in 1920. Agriculture school founded in 1937.

In August 1941, a total of 160 Jews from Žeimelis were murdered by an Einsatzgruppen. The mass execution was perpetrated by Germans and local Lithuaniens collaborators. After the murders, remaining Jewish property was distributed or sold to local inhabitants.

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