Žeimiai

For the village in Varėna district municipality, Alytus County, Lithuania, see Žeimiai (Varėna).

Žeimiai (Polish: Żejmy) is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania the center of the Žeimiai Eldership. As of 2011 it had a population of 860.^[1]

Žeimiai
Town
Coat of arms
Žeimiai Location in Lithuania
Coordinates: 55°10′50″N 24°13′20″E
Country	Lithuania
Ethnographic region	Aukštaitija
County	Kaunas County
Municipality	Jonava district municipality
Eldership	Žeimiai Eldership
Population  (2011)
• Total	860
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

History

Before the Holocaust, the town had a Jewish population who were murdered in 1941 in mass executions perpetrated an einsatzgruppen of Germans and Lithuanian collaborators.^[2][3]

Polish architect Wacław Michniewicz, who was responsible for designing many buildings in Lithuania, designed the church in the town, and was buried in the churchyard there in 1947.^[4]