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Revision as of 02:37, 28 October 2008 by Poeticbent (talk | contribs) (ref)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Mieżańce was a village in Wilno Voivodeship (1923–1939) in north-eastern Poland before the Nazi German and Soviet invasions of Poland in September of 1939. Nowadays, the village is known as Miežionys, Lithuania, with the population of around 400 mostly elderly people, over 70% Polish, 15% Lithuanian, and similar Russian and Ukrainian minorities.
During the Nazi occupation in World War II the village gave assistance to the Jews organised into food gathering groups sent from the Jewish ghetto in Raduń, including those who escaped the German massacre of May 10, 1942. Among them was Leon Kahn, who appeared with his father in Mieżańce (Mizhantz) while wandering around the area. The villagers took them in and gave them food and help. Sarah Fishkin of Rubieżewicze left a diary attesting to repeated acts of kindness by villagers in that area.
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- Martin Gilbert, The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust (Toronto: Key Porter, 2003), p.19.
- Anna Eilenberg-Eibeshitz, Remember! A Collection of Testimonies (Haifa: H. Eibeshitz Institute for Holocaust Studies, 1999), pp.285–306.
- Template:Pl icon Filip Sulimierski, Bronisław Chlebowski, Władysław Walewski, Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich T. 6, Warszawa, pp. 363-364. Chapter: Mieżańce
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