Vishneva
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Vishneva (Belarusian: Ві́шнева; Russian: Вишнево, Vishnevo) is a township in the Valozhyn raion of the Minsk Voblast, Belarus, near the border with Lithuania. In 1921-1939 the town was part of the Second Polish Republic as part of Nowogródek Voivodeship.
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. 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, the current president of the State of Israel. Peres emigrated to Palestine with his family in 1934.
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