Tryškiai
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Tryškiai (Samogitian: Trīškē, Yiddish: טרישיק; Trishik) is a small town in Telšiai district municipality, Lithuania with a population of about 1,600.
History
In late July, 1941, 70 to 80 Jewish men were killed in a mass execution perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppen of Germans and Lithuanian nationalists.[1] Two weeks later the Jewish women and children of the town were sent to the Žagarė ghetto where they were murdered during the ghetto liquidation.
Further reading
- Ita Hersch, "My Childhood in Trishik." ISBN 0-620-26108-0
- Jews in Trishik
References
Coordinates: 56°04′N 22°35′E / 56.067°N 22.583°E
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