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Vishneva (; , Vishnevo; ) is a township in the Valozhyn raion of the Minsk Voblast, Belarus
Belarus

Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
, near the border with Lithuania
Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
. In 1921-1939 the town was part of the Second Polish Republic
Second Polish Republic

The Second Polish Republic, Second Commonwealth of Poland or interwar Poland is the Republic of Poland between World War I and World War II....
 as part of Nowogródek Voivodeship
Nowogródek Voivodeship (1919-1939)

Nowogr?dek Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division of the Second Polish Republic between 1919 and 1939, with the capital in the town of Nowogrodek ....
.

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

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. On August 30, 1942 some 1,100 Jews from the town were killed by the SS.






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Vishneva (; , Vishnevo; ) is a township in the Valozhyn raion of the Minsk Voblast, Belarus
Belarus

Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
, near the border with Lithuania
Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
. In 1921-1939 the town was part of the Second Polish Republic
Second Polish Republic

The Second Polish Republic, Second Commonwealth of Poland or interwar Poland is the Republic of Poland between World War I and World War II....
 as part of Nowogródek Voivodeship
Nowogródek Voivodeship (1919-1939)

Nowogr?dek Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division of the Second Polish Republic between 1919 and 1939, with the capital in the town of Nowogrodek ....
.

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

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. On August 30, 1942 some 1,100 Jews from the town were killed by the SS. A Jewish cemetery remains in the town. The survivors have emigrated.

The city was the birth place of Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres

Order of St Michael and St George is the ninth and current President of Israel. Peres served twice as Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 Cabinet of Israel in a political career spanning over 66 years....
, the current president of the State of Israel (emigrated to Palestine
Palestine

Palestine is a name which has been widely used since Roman times to refer to the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. It is derived from a name used already much earlier for a narrower geographical region, mainly along the coastal region....
 with his family in 1934), and Nahum Goldman, founder and longtime president of the World Jewish Congress
World Jewish Congress

File:Lauder_Elsztain.jpgThe World Jewish Congress was founded in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1936 as an international federation of Jewish communities and organizations....
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