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Skaudvilė (, Samogitian: Skaudvėlė) is a town in the Tauragė district municipality of Lithuania. It is located north-east of Tauragė.

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Place details

Locality
Skaudvilė
Region
Tauragės apskritis
Country
Lietuva
Population
0

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Key facts

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Lithuania
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Location of Skaudvilė
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Lithuania
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Ethnographic&nbsp;region
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Samogitia
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County
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Tauragė County
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Municipality
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Tauragė district municipality
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Eldership
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Capital of
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Skaudvilė eldership

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Encyclopedic overview

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Skaudvilė (, Samogitian: Skaudvėlė) is a town in the Tauragė district municipality of Lithuania. It is located north-east of Tauragė.

==History== During World War II, the town was under Soviet occupation from 1940, and then under German occupation from 1941 to 1944. In August 1941, the Jewish community of the town was massacred in a mass execution perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppe. 300 Jews were killed.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Skaudvilė” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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