Glitiškes
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Glitiškės is village in Vilnius district, Lithuania
. It is situated on the eastern bank of the Širvys Lake. According to the 2001 census, it had 586 residents. The village was the site of the massacre of few dozens of Polish villagers
by the Lithuanian police in 1944.
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
. It is situated on the eastern bank of the Širvys Lake. According to the 2001 census, it had 586 residents. The village was the site of the massacre of few dozens of Polish villagers
Glinciszki massacre
Glinciszki massacre refers to a mass murder that occurred on 20 June 1944 in the village of Glitiškės . In the massacre, thirty-seven mostly Polish villagers were killed by Nazi subordinated Lithuanian policemen retaliating for the death of four policemen that occurred during a fight with element...
by the Lithuanian police in 1944.