** Šaukėnai ** is a village in Šiauliai County in northern-central Lithuania. In 2011 it had a population of 596. Šaukėnai has Šaukėnų Holy Trinity masonry church (built in 1989), a high school, a library, a post office (ZIP code: 86043), an ethnography museum and Šaukėnai manor with park.

History

On July 31, 1941, 273 to 300 Jews from the village were murdered by an Einsatzgruppen of Germans and Lithuanian nationalists in a mass execution. They were mostly men, the women and children were taken to Žagarė ghetto.