Kruonis

Kruonis
Town

Coat of arms
Kruonis

Location in Lithuania

Coordinates: 54°45′30″N 24°14′40″E / 54.75833°N 24.24444°E / 54.75833; 24.24444Coordinates: 54°45′30″N 24°14′40″E / 54.75833°N 24.24444°E / 54.75833; 24.24444
Country  Lithuania
Ethnographic region Aukštaitija
County Kaunas County
Population (2001)
 • Total 726
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Kruonis church

Kruonis (Polish: Kronie) is a small town, located 37 km (23 mi) east of Kaunas, in Kaunas County, central Lithuania. In 2001 it had a population of 726. The only in the Baltic States Kruonis Pumped Storage Plant (the KPSP) is situated 3 km (1.9 mi) north of Kruonis.

History

On July, 1941, 19 Kruonis Jews were murdered in a mass execution[1] On August 15, 1941, some Kruonis Jews, mostly men, were taken in the direction of Kaunas and murdered, together with Jews from Darsūniškis, in the Gojus Forest, by Lithuanian nazis from Kruonis. At the end of summer 1941, Rollkommando Hamann and policemen from Pakuonis shot 99 Jewish women, children, and old people from Darsūniškis, Kruonis, and Pakuonis in Darsūniškis. .[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/institute/killing_sites_catalog_details_full.asp?region=Troki&title=Troki%20county
  2. ↑ http://www.iajgs.org/cemetery/lithuania/kruonis-kaunus.html
  3. ↑ http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Pinkas_lita/lit_00611.html


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