Želva
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Želva is a town in Ukmergė district municipality, Vilnius County, east Lithuania. According to the Lithuanian census of 2011, the town has a population of 457 people.{{cite web|url=http://statistics.bookdesign.lt/table_125_06.htm?lang=en|title=2011 census|publisher=Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania)|accessdate=August 17, 2017}}
History
The town has a Catholic church and a synagogue. Želva is the birthplace of Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Aaron Klug.{{cite web|url=http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FKLUG|title=The Papers of Sir Aaron Klug|publisher=Churchill Archives Centre|accessdate=2016-03-03}}
On July 26 and 27, 1941, the Jews of the town were murdered in a mass execution perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppen and local Lithuanian collaborators. 60 people were killed.{{Cite web|title=Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania|url=http://www.holocaustatlas.lt/EN/#a_atlas/search//page//item/176/|access-date=2020-10-03|website=www.holocaustatlas.lt}}
See also
- Pazelva, former village near Želva
References
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Category:Towns in Vilnius County
Category:Holocaust locations in Lithuania
Category:Ukmergė District Municipality
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