Salakas
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| Coordinates: 55°34′40″N 26°08′00″E / 55.57778°N 26.13333°ECoordinates: 55°34′40″N 26°08′00″E / 55.57778°N 26.13333°E | ||
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| Ethnographic region | Aukštaitija | |
| County | Utena County | |
| Municipality | Zarasai | |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | |
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Salakas 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.
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.
At the end of August, 1941, about 150 Jews from the town – men, women and children – were murdered in the nearby forest of Sungardai. The mass execution was perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppen. The lurid Jews of Salakas destiny was revealed in Yaakov Meir Schechter publications.
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