Vainutas
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Vainutas is a small town in Klaipėda County, in northwestern Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 746 people.[1]
History
During the
Second World War, the Jewish community was assassinated in a mass execution perpetrated by an einsatzgruppen.[2]
There is a monument on the site of the massacre.
References
- ^ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 17, 2017.
- ^ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania".