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Skaudvilė
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Skaudvilė (, Samogitian: Skaudvėlė) is a town in the Tauragė district municipality of Lithuania. It is located 26 km north-east of Tauragė.
History
During World War II, the town was under Soviet occupation from 1940, and then under German occupation from 1941 to 1944. In August 1941, the Jewish community of the town was massacred in a mass execution perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppe. 300 Jews were killed.
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