Tryškiai

Traupis
Town
Coat of arms
Traupis
Coordinates: 56°03′10.8″N 22°34′51.6″E / 56.053000°N 22.581000°E / 56.053000; 22.581000Coordinates: 56°03′10.8″N 22°34′51.6″E / 56.053000°N 22.581000°E / 56.053000; 22.581000
Country	Lithuania
Ethnographic region	Samogitia
County	Telšiai County
Population  (2011)
• Total	1,352
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

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

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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