Tryškiai
Tryškiai (Samogitian: Trīškē, Polish: Tryszki) is a small town in Telšiai district municipality, Lithuania with a population of about 1,400.
Tryškiai | |
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Town | |
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 Coat of arms | |
  Tryškiai | |
| Coordinates: 56°03′10.8″N 22°34′51.6″E | |
| Country |  Lithuania |
| Ethnographic region | Samogitia |
| County | Telšiai County |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 1,352 |
| Time zone | UTC+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
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