Salakas

Salakas
Town

Coat of arms
Salakas
Coordinates: LT 55°34′40″N 26°08′00″E / 55.57778°N 26.13333°E / 55.57778; 26.13333Coordinates: LT 55°34′40″N 26°08′00″E / 55.57778°N 26.13333°E / 55.57778; 26.13333
Country  Lithuania
Ethnographic region Aukštaitija
County Utena County
Municipality Zarasai
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
  Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)

Salakas (Polish: Sołoki) is a town in northeastern Lithuania with a population of 499 inhabitants. It is famous for the neo-romantic church of Lady of Sorrows. It was built in 1911.

History

The settlement of Sakalas appeared in IX-XI AD. However, First time its name was mentioned only in 1422, in the populated places dissemination scheme by Henryk Łowmiański.[1]

At the end of August, 1941, about 150 Jews from the town – men, women and children – were murdered in the nearby forest of Sungardai.[2] The mass execution was perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppen. The lurid Jews of Salakas destiny was revealed in Yaakov Meir Schechter publications.[3]

References

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