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'''Mateikonys''' {{lang-pl|Matejkany}} is a village in [[Šalčininkai district municipality]], [[Lithuania]]. According to the 2001 census it had population of 177.<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> |
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'''Matejkany''' was a village in [[Gmina]] [[Ejszyszki]] ({{lang-lt|Eišiškės}}), [[Wilno Voivodeship (1923–1939)]], in north-eastern [[Poland]] (now in [[Lithuania]]), before the [[invasion of Poland (1939)|Nazi German and Soviet invasions of Poland]] in September of 1939. |
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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."<ref name="">[http://www.glaukopis.pl/pdf/czytelnia/Tangled_Web_2.pdf Mark Paul, "Polish-Jewish Relations..."]</ref> 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.<ref name=zydai>{{lt icon}} {{cite web| url=http://www.zydai.lt/lt/content/viewitem/619/ |title=Eišiškės |first=Deiminta |last=Keršytė |coauthors=Agnė Rymkevičiūtė, Vidas Dusevičius |date=2007-08-21 |publisher=Žydai Lietuvoje |accessdate=2008-09-03}}</ref> |
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==References== |
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*[http://www.glaukopis.pl/pdf/czytelnia/Tangled_Web_2.pdf Mark Paul, "Polish-Jewish Relations in Wartime Northeastern Poland and the Aftermath"] PEFINA Press, Toronto 2008 |
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[[Category:Villages in Vilnius County]] |
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* {{pl icon}} Wiktor Noskowski, “Czy Yaffa Eliach przeprosi Polaków?” ''Mysl Polska'' ([[Warsaw]]), July 20–27, 1997. |
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Revision as of 00:19, 31 October 2008
Mateikonys Polish: Matejkany is a village in Šalčininkai district municipality, Lithuania. According to the 2001 census it had population of 177.[1]
References
- ^ 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.