Eišiškės

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Eišiškės ([pronunciation] ([Media helphelp]·[info]); Polish: Ejszyszki) is a city in southeastern Lithuania on the border with Belarus. It was a Jewish shtetl. On 21 September 1941, an einsatzgruppen unit entered Eišiškės and killed the approximately 4,000 Jewish residents.

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