Šaukėnai
Šaukėnai is a village in Šiauliai County in northern-central Lithuania. In 2011 it had a population of 596.
Šaukėnai has Šaukėnų Holy Trinity masonry church, a high school, a library, a post office, an ethnography museum and Šaukėnai manor with park.History
On July 31, 1941, 273 to 300 Jews from the village were murdered by an Einsatzgruppen of Germans and Lithuanian nationalists in a mass execution.
They were mostly men, the women and children were taken to Žagarė ghetto.
