Leipalingis
Town
Coat of arms
Leipalingis Location in Lithuania
Coordinates: 54°05′10″N 23°51′40″E / 54.08611°N 23.86111°E / 54.08611; 23.86111Coordinates: 54°05′10″N 23°51′40″E / 54.08611°N 23.86111°E / 54.08611; 23.86111
Country	Lithuania
Ethnographic region	Dzūkija
County	Alytus County
Municipality	Druskininkai municipality
Population (2001)
• Total	1,736
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)

Leipalingis is a small town in Alytus County in southern Lithuania. In 2001 it had a population of 1736.

History[edit]

The village had an important Jewish community before World War II^[1] On 9 September 1941, 155 men, women and children were murdered by Lithuanian guards in a mass execution close to the Catholic cemetery next to the Seira river.^[2]

References[edit]

• This article was initially translated from the Lithuanian Wikipedia.