Tryškiai

Tryškiai (Samogitian: Trīškē, Polish: Tryszki) is a small town in Telšiai district municipality, Lithuania with a population of about 1,400.

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Town
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 56°03′10.8″N 22°34′51.6″E
Country Lithuania
Ethnographic regionSamogitia
CountyTelšiai County
Population
 (2011)
  Total1,352
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

History

In late July 1941, 70 to 80 Jewish men were killed in a mass execution perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppen of Germans and Lithuanian nationalists.[1] Two weeks later the Jewish women and children of the town were sent to the Žagarė ghetto where they were murdered during the ghetto liquidation.

Further reading

  • Ita Hersch, "My Childhood in Trishik." ISBN 0-620-26108-0
  • Jews in Trishik

References


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