Tuhia he tohutoro mō tēnei wāhanga - I te tau 1939 e 736 ngā tāngata o te taone. I noho tata a Nida, penei i te katoa o te Curonian Spit, na te whakaekenga o te Ope Whero me te Whakakorenga o East Prussia
i te mutunga o te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, me te tukunga o nga kainoho Tiamana i ora. I whakawhiwhia te taone ki a Lithuania i raro i nga huringa rohe i panuitia i te Huihuinga o Potsdam, a ka uru ki te Lithuanian SSR i roto i te Soviet Union; mai i te 1990 he waahanga o Lithuania motuhake.