# Šiauliai <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Yiddish</td><td dir="rtl">שאַװל</td></tr> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Šiauliai (Lithuanian), Shavl / Shavli (Yiddish), Szawle (Polish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Lithuania, Šiauliai County (city municipality)</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>55.9333 23.3167</td></tr> </table> <table class="place-meta place-eras"> <tr><th>Era</th><th>Town name</th><th>Country / jurisdiction</th></tr> <tr><td>to 1915</td><td>Shavli</td><td>Russian Empire — Kovno Governorate (Shavli uyezd)</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1940</td><td>Šiauliai</td><td>Independent Lithuania</td></tr> <tr><td>1940–1941</td><td>Šiauliai</td><td>USSR (Soviet annexation)</td></tr> <tr><td>1941–1944</td><td>Schaulen</td><td>Nazi German occupation</td></tr> <tr><td>1944–1990</td><td>Šiauliai</td><td>USSR — Lithuanian SSR</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Šiauliai</td><td>Republic of Lithuania — Šiauliai County</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Šiauliai (Yiddish Shavl) was a district town of the Russian Empire's Kovno Governorate and, after 1918, the second-largest city of independent Lithuania, with a Jewish community of ~8,000 (about a quarter of the population in 1939) — the second-largest in the country. After the 1941 German invasion thousands were shot in nearby forests; a ghetto in two sections was set up in July 1941 and liquidated by July 1944 through massacres and deportations, with only ~500 of the city's Jews surviving. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — Šiauliai, Wikipedia — Šiauliai Ghetto, Yad Vashem, JewishGen</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Benjamin Zvi Brody (b.1819)]] | Born 1819, Died 1864 | | [[Nathan Dahne (b.1850)]] | Born ~1850 | | [[Khonon Khonel Dantsig (b.1852)]] | Born 1852, Died 07/13/1923 | | [[Elias George Dahne (b.1875)]] | Born 05/10/1875 | | [[Harry Dahne (b.1875)]] | Born 12/24/1875 | | [[Emmanuel Harry Dahne (b.1880)]] | Born 11/15/1880 | | [[Jenta Eta Melnik (b.1880)]] | Born 12/23/1880 | | [[Minnie Ida Dahne (b.1886)]] | Born 05/12/1886 | | [[Eva Dahne (b.1895)]] | Born 07/12/1895 | | [[Shlioma Dantsig (b.1896)]] | Born 03/15/1896 | | [[Zalmanas Zaks (b.1902)]] | Born 1902 | | [[Zelmanas Rivkind (b.1913)]] | Born 05/28/1913, Died 04/21/1923 | | [[Tsyvia Rocha Kaplan (b.1853)]] | Died 01/01/1925 | | [[Chana Dantsig (b.1929)]] | Born 01/13/1929 | | [[Sara Dantsig (b.1859)]] | Died 02/28/1938 |