Vishnyeva

Wischnewa or Vishnevo (White Russian Вішнева; Russian Вишнево; Polish Wiszniewo ) is a place in the Minsk Raion Waloschyn Woblasz in Belarus near the Lithuanian border. In the years 1921 to 1939 the town belonged to the Second Polish Republic Nowogródek Voivodeship. The name refers in all three languages ​​on cherries ( sour cherries ).

The place has long been dominated mainly Jewish: In 1907, the city had 2650 inhabitants, of whom 1863 were Jews. Most of the Jewish inhabitants were killed during the German occupation in World War II. The remaining survivors have left the place, but a Jewish cemetery is still in place.

In Wischnewa Israeli President Shimon Peres was born in 1923, who with his family emigrated to Palestine in 1934. Nahum Goldmann, the founder and longtime president of the World Jewish Congress also comes from Wischnewa.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Nahum Goldmann (1895-1982), President of the World Jewish Congress
  • Yehoshua Rabinowitz (1911-1979), Israeli politician
  • Shimon Peres ( b. 1923 ), Israeli politician and President
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