Pabradė
Pabradė
Podbrodzie | |
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City | |
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  Pabradė Location of Pabradė | |
| Coordinates: 54°58′59″N 25°45′59″E / 54.98306°N 25.76639°E | |
| Country |  Lithuania |
| Ethnographic region | Aukštaitija |
| County |  Vilnius County |
| Municipality | Švenčionys district municipality |
| Eldership | Pabradė eldership |
| Capital of | Pabradė eldership |
| First mentioned | 15th century |
| Granted city rights | 1946 |
| Population (2021) | |
| • Total | 4,807 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Pabradė (ⓘ; Polish: Podbrodzie; Yiddish: פּאָדבראָדז Podbrodz) is a city in Lithuania, in Švenčionys district municipality, on Žeimena river, 38 km south-west of Švenčionys.
Pabradė is a busy place as the Vilnius–Daugavpils railway is close to the city. It was quite a small settlement until the 19th century, when the Warsaw – Saint Petersburg Railway was built in 1862.
History[edit]
About 850 Jews lived in the town in 1939, comprising one third of the total population. After June 1941, at the very beginning of the occupation, about a dozen Jews were executed. In the middle of July, Lithuanian policemen arrested about 60 Jews and shot them behind the mill. On September 1, the rest of the Jewish population was moved into a ghetto that was established on two streets, previously inhabited by Christians. The ghetto was open, so many of its residents escaped at the end of the month, after rumors about the forthcoming Aktion had spread. Over 100 Jews who were interred in the ghetto or who were recaptured were escorted to the military training camp in Švenčionėliai and shot on October 8–10, along with thousands of other Jews assembled there.[1] Policemen continued searching for Jewish escapees, gathered them in groups and shot them on the outskirts of town.[2]
Population[edit]
In 2011, the city's population was composed of Poles - 44.73% (2681), Lithuanians – 26.81% (1607), Russians - 18.45% (1106), Belarusians - 5.27% (316), Ukrainians - 1.17% (70), others - 3.57% (214).[3]
Camp Herkus[edit]
Near the town, there is Camp Herkus (Formerly Pabradė Training Area) (Lithuanian: Pabradės poligonas), a major military facility of the United States Army, established in 2021. It has an area of 12,500 hectares (48 sq mi) and currently houses ~500 members of the United States 1st Infantry Division while the US Congress debate a more permanent base in Lithuania.[4]
History[edit]
The Pabradė Training Area (Lithuanian: Pabradės poligonas) used to be a major facility of the Lithuanian Armed Forces established in 1904.[5] It had an area of 12,500 hectares (125 km2) and was used for training at the battalion level.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania". holocaustatlas.lt. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
- ^ "YAHAD - IN UNUM". yahadmap.org. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
- ^ "Miestų gyventojai pagal tautybę 2011". osp.stat.gov.lt. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
- ^ "Is This the Next US Military Base in Europe?". Defense One. 2021-10-03. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
- ^ "Pabradės istorijos datos" (in Lithuanian). Asociacija Pabradės bendruomenės "Domus". Archived from the original on 13 April 2022. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
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