- Kaniūkai
Kaniūkai ( _pl. Koniuchy) is a village in
Šalčininkai district municipality ofLithuania . According to the 2001 census, its population was 167.Before 1939 it was located in the
Lida county of the Nowogródek Voivodeship,Second Polish Republic . It was briefly taken by theSoviet Union afterwards and was transferred to Lithuania according to theSoviet–Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty . The village became part of the Jašiūnai Municipality,Eišiškės County. Later it was briefly part of the GermanReichskommissariat Ostland before returning to theLithuanian SSR (since 1990, Lithuania).During the World War II it was the site of a massacre of Polish civilians by the
Soviet partisans (theKoniuchy massacre ).
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