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Revision as of 02:14, 30 October 2008 by Poeticbent (talk | contribs) (wp:mos, i-links)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Matejkany was a village in Gmina Ejszyszki (Template:Lang-lt), Wilno Voivodeship (1923–1939), in north-eastern Poland (now in Lithuania), before the Nazi German and Soviet invasions of Poland in September of 1939.
During the Nazi occupation of Matejkany, one of its Polish defenders, Captain Stanisław Truszkowski adopted Estera Bielicka, a Jewish girl, passing her off as his own child. She was of the same age as his daughter and lived "in plain sight of all of the residents of this village. Not only did the villagers know about her, but she was also seen at church services in town and no one from among the parishioners betrayed her." On September 25–26, 1941, a Nazi German Einsatzgruppen death squad entered the area and massacred around 4,946 Jews in Ejszyszki and the neighboring towns and villages.
References
- Mark Paul, "Polish-Jewish Relations..."
- Template:Lt icon Keršytė, Deiminta (2007-08-21). "Eišiškės". Žydai Lietuvoje. Retrieved 2008-09-03.
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- Mark Paul, "Polish-Jewish Relations in Wartime Northeastern Poland and the Aftermath" PEFINA Press, Toronto 2008
- Template:Pl icon Wiktor Noskowski, “Czy Yaffa Eliach przeprosi Polaków?” Mysl Polska (Warsaw), July 20–27, 1997.