Israelin Presidentin syntymäseutu Valko-Venäjällä

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 After visiting the Persky family's shack and the village center, the team went on to see a monument honoring those who perished in the Holocaust. The monument was erected during the Communist era on the side of a courtyard where many local Jews were shot to death. On one side of the monument, it is written in Russian that the victims are "Soviet citizens." On the other side a Hebrew inscription, which was added in 2005, states that  2,000 Jews were killed in Vishneyva, among them several members of the Persky family.

"In his speech at Bundestag on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2010, Peres described in chilling detail how 2,000 Jews from the village were led, with his grandfather Rabbi Meltzer at the front, to the wooden synagogue which was set alight by Nazis," Dori recalls, and despite the thick snow he takes a kippa from his pocket and places it on his head. "Magnified and sanctified be His great name," he calls, and the other members of the group join him in reciting kaddish for the deceased. When the prayer ends Dori says,"Here in Vishneyva we see that the Jewish people won. But what was awful was the price." 

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Vishnyeva

Vishnyeva (Belarusian: Ві́шнева; Russian: Вишнево, Vishnevo; Polish: Wiszniew) is a township in Valozhyn Raion, Minsk Region, Belarus, near the border with Lithuania.

History

In 1921-39 the town was part of the Second Polish Republic as part of Nowogródek Voivodeship.
The population of Vishnyeva in 1907 numbered 2,650, of which 1,863 were Jews. However, the entire Jewish population has since disappeared. Most were exterminated by the Germans during World War II.
On August 30, 1942 some 1,100 Jews from the town were killed by the SS, the remaining Jews were taken to the Ghetto in the nearby town of Valozhyn. A Jewish cemetery remains in the town. The survivors have emigrated.

Notable residents

Shimon Peres (standing, third from right) with his family, ca. 1930

The city was the birthplace of Shimon Peres, the president of Israel (emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine with his family in 1934), and Nahum Goldman, founder and longtime president of the World Jewish Congress.