Vishnyeva

For the Russian ballerina, see Diana Vishneva.

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Belarusian Catholic Church of Saint Mary in Vishnyeva

Vishnyeva (Belarusian: Ві́шнева; Russian: Вишнево, Vishnevo; Polish: Wiszniew; Yiddish: וישנעווע‎, Vishneva) is a township in Valozhyn Raion, Minsk Region, Belarus, near the border with Lithuania.

History

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Holocaust memorial at the site of Vishnyeva Jewish cemetery

In 1921-39 the town was part of the Second Polish Republic as part of Nowogródek Voivodeship.

The population of Vishnyeva in 1907 numbered 2,650, of which 1,863 were Jews. However, the entire Jewish population has since disappeared. Most were exterminated by the Nazi Germans during World War II.

On August 30, 1942 some 1,100 Jews from the town were killed by the SS, the remaining Jews were taken to the Ghetto in the nearby town of Valozhyn. A Jewish cemetery remains in the town. The survivors have emigrated.

People

Shimon Peres (standing, third from right) with his family, ca. 1930

The city was the birthplace of Shimon Peres, the former president of Israel, who emigrated to the Mandatory Palestine with his family in 1934, and Nahum Goldmann, founder and longtime president of the World Jewish Congress. The city was the place of death of Symon Budny.

External links

• http://www.vishnive.org/e_index.html
• http://www.radzima.org/pub/miesta.php?lang=en&miesta_id1=mevavisz