For the town in Belarus, see Zelva.

Želva is a town in Ukmergė district municipality, Vilnius County, east Lithuania. According to the Lithuanian census of 2011, the town has a population of 457 people.[1]

History

The town has a Catholic church and a synagogue. Želva is the birthplace of Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Aaron Klug.[2]

On July 26 and 27, 1941, the Jews of the town were murdered in a mass execution perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppen and local Lithuanian collaborators. 60 people were killed.[3]

See also

  • Pazelva, former village near Želva

References

  1. ^ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  2. ^ "The Papers of Sir Aaron Klug". Churchill Archives Centre. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
  3. ^ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania". www.holocaustatlas.lt. Retrieved 2020-10-03.