Vishnyeva

For the Russian ballerina, see Diana Vishneva.
Vishneva, Belarus Soviet Union Poland is grounded in the oral history testimony of a Holocaust survivor from Vishneva, Poland, and has been deconstructed by the interviewee’s son. Unlike most oral histories that focus on the words of the interviewee, Vishneva uses silent images from the interview superimposed with typed memories that describe the unspoken pain borne by father and son through more than half a century.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkQSKgLCZhE 3 minute documentary about a survivor of Vishneva, Poland
Polish 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

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 German soldiers 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.

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Coordinates: 54°8′N 26°14′E / 54.133°N 26.233°E / 54.133; 26.233

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