Padubysis
Village
Padubysis Location of Padubysis
Coordinates: 55°33′43″N 23°04′37″E / 55.56194°N 23.07694°E / 55.56194; 23.07694
Country	Lithuania
Ethnographic region	Samogitia
County	Šiauliai County
Municipality	Kelmė District Municipality
Eldership	Loliai eldership
Population  (2011)
• Total	24
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Padubysis is a village in the Kelmė District Municipality in Lithuania.

History

Before World War II, the village was a shtetl; the majority of the inhabitants were Jews until the German invasion of Russia in June 1941.^[1] On August 15 and 16, 1941, 120 Jews from Padubysis and the nearby villages of Lyduvėnai and Bulavėnai were murdered in a mass execution perpetrated by German Einsatzgruppen and local Lithuanian collaborators. ^[2] A stele has been erected on the site of the massacre.

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