Salakas
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Salakas is located in Lithuania
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| Country |  Lithuania |
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| Ethnographic region | Aukštaitija | |
| County | Utena County | |
| Municipality | Zarasai | |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | |
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Salakas (Polish: Sołoki) is a town in northeastern Lithuania with a population of 499 inhabitants. It is famous for the neo-romantic church of Lady of Sorrows. It was built in 1911.
History
The settlement of Sakalas appeared in IX-XI AD. However, First time its name was mentioned only in 1422, in the populated places dissemination scheme by Henryk Łowmiański.[1]
At the end of August, 1941, about 150 Jews from the town – men, women and children – were murdered in the nearby forest of Sungardai.[2] The mass execution was perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppen. The lurid Jews of Salakas destiny was revealed in Yaakov Meir Schechter publications.[3]
References
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- ↑ http://www.holocaustatlas.lt/EN/#a_atlas/search//page/1/item/190/
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