Tryškiai

56°03′10.8″N 22°34′51.6″E / 56.053000°N 22.581000°E / 56.053000; 22.581000Country LithuaniaEthnographic regionSamogitiaCountyTelšiai CountyPopulation • Total1,060Time zoneUTC+2 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Tryškiai (Samogitian: Trīškē, Polish: Tryszki, Yiddish: טרישיק, romanized: Trishki) is a small town in Telšiai district municipality, Lithuania with a population of about 1,000.

History

In late July 1941, 70 to 80 Jewish men were killed on the banks of the Virvyte in a mass execution perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppen of Germans and Lithuanian nationalists.^[1] In the beginning of August the women were told that they would join their husbands, but they were led to Gruzdžiai and there, they were left in an open field without any shelter and were abused by the Lithuanian guards. A week later, in the middle of August, they were brought to the Zhager ghetto. On October 2, 1941 they were murdered in the Narishkin estate with 3,000 Jews from Zagare and the surrounding towns.

Further reading

• Ita Hersch, "My Childhood in Trishik." ISBN 0-620-26108-0
• Jews in Trishik

References