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Revision as of 17:17, 4 September 2019
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Seirijai | |
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Town | |
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 Coat of arms | |
  Seirijai Location in Lithuania | |
| Coordinates: 54°13′50″N 23°48′50″E / 54.23056°N 23.81389°E | |
| Country |  Lithuania |
| Ethnographic region | Dzūkija |
| County |  Alytus County |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 788 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Seirijai is a small town in Alytus County in southern Lithuania. In 2011 it had a population of 788.[1]
Etymology
Seirijai toponym came from the lake Seirijis, which got it's name from the creek Seira name of which is of Yotvingian descent. Derivative names in other alnguages are - Polish: Sereje, German: Serrey, English sometimes "Serey"[2]
History
From 1383 to 1398 Seirijai was in the State of the Teutonic Order, and from 1691 to 1793 it formed a small exclave of Prussia within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.[citation needed]. Since 16th century Serijai are known as a proprietary land of a ruler. King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund I the Old donated Seirijai to Jan Sapieha, and later it became a possesion of Radvila family.
Alexander Ziskind Maimon, Lithuanian Jewish author and scholar of the Talmud and Mishnah was born in the city in 1809.[citation needed]
On September 11, 1941, 953 Jews from Seirijai were murdered in the Baraučiškės Forest, including 229 men, 384 women and 340 children. The mass execution was perpetrated by Rollkommando Hamann (Template:Lang-lt, a small mobile unit that committed mass murders of Lithuanian Jews in the countryside in July–October 1941,[3] with a death toll of at least 60,000 Jews.[4]) / 1st Battalion 3rd Unit led by Norkus and Obelenis; Lithuanian Activists Front members from Seirijai [5]
References
- ^ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 13, 2017.
- ^ "Serey (Seirijai)". JewishGen KehilaLinks. 5 April 2000. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
- ^ Melamed, Joseph A. "The Mechanized Commando Unit of Haman". Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- ^ Dean, Martin C. (2004). "Local Collaboration in the Holocaust in Eastern Europe". In Stone, Dan (ed.). The Historiography of the Holocaust. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-4039-9927-6.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - ^ http://www.holocaustatlas.lt/EN/#a_atlas/search//page/1/item/44/
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