Vainutas

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Town in Klaipėda County, Lithuania

Seal

55°21′50″N 21°52′0″E / 55.36389°N 21.86667°E / 55.36389; 21.86667Country

LithuaniaCounty

Klaipėda CountyPopulation

(2011)

• Total746Time zoneUTC+2 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Vainutas is a small town in Klaipėda County, in northwestern Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 746 people.^[1]

History

During the Second World War, the Jewish community was assassinated in a mass execution perpetrated by an einsatzgruppen.^[2] There is a monument on the site of the massacre.