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'''Miežionys''' ({{lang-pl|Mieżańce}}) is a ] in ], ]. According to the 2001 census, its population was 110.<ref>{{lt icon}} {{cite book | title=Vilniaus apskrities kaimo gyvenamosios vietovės ir jų gyventojai |url=http://www.stat.gov.lt/uploads/docs/Vilniaus_apskritis.pdf |publisher=Department of Statistics to the Government of the Republic of Lithuania |year=2003 |location=Vilnius |isbn=9955-588-04-7 }}</ref> '''Miežionys''' ({{lang-pl|Mieżańce}}) is a ] in ], ]. According to the 2001 census, its population was 110.<ref>{{lt icon}} {{cite book | title=Vilniaus apskrities kaimo gyvenamosios vietovės ir jų gyventojai |url=http://www.stat.gov.lt/uploads/docs/Vilniaus_apskritis.pdf |publisher=Department of Statistics to the Government of the Republic of Lithuania |year=2003 |location=Vilnius |isbn=9955-588-04-7 }}</ref>

From 1923 to 1939 the village was located in ], north-east ], before the ], after which the village was transferred to ].


During the ] occupation in ] the village gave assistance to the Jews organised into food gathering groups sent from the Jewish ghetto in ], 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.<ref name="MG">Martin Gilbert, ''The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust'' (Toronto: Key Porter, 2003), p.19.</ref> Sarah Fishkin of Rubieżewicze left a diary attesting to repeated acts of kindness by villagers in that area.<ref name="AE">Anna Eilenberg-Eibeshitz, ''Remember! A Collection of Testimonies'' (Haifa: H. Eibeshitz Institute for Holocaust Studies, 1999), pp.285–306.</ref> During the ] occupation in ] the village gave assistance to the Jews organised into food gathering groups sent from the Jewish ghetto in ], 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.<ref name="MG">Martin Gilbert, ''The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust'' (Toronto: Key Porter, 2003), p.19.</ref> Sarah Fishkin of Rubieżewicze left a diary attesting to repeated acts of kindness by villagers in that area.<ref name="AE">Anna Eilenberg-Eibeshitz, ''Remember! A Collection of Testimonies'' (Haifa: H. Eibeshitz Institute for Holocaust Studies, 1999), pp.285–306.</ref>

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Miežionys (Template:Lang-pl) is a village in Vilnius district municipality, Lithuania. According to the 2001 census, its population was 110.

From 1923 to 1939 the village was located in Wilno Voivodeship (1923–1939), north-east Second Polish Republic, before the Nazi German and Soviet invasions of Poland in September of 1939, after which the village was transferred to Lithuanian SSR.

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.

Bibliography

  1. Template:Lt icon Vilniaus apskrities kaimo gyvenamosios vietovės ir jų gyventojai (PDF). Vilnius: Department of Statistics to the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. 2003. ISBN 9955-588-04-7.
  2. Martin Gilbert, The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust (Toronto: Key Porter, 2003), p.19.
  3. Anna Eilenberg-Eibeshitz, Remember! A Collection of Testimonies (Haifa: H. Eibeshitz Institute for Holocaust Studies, 1999), pp.285–306.
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