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Country
  
Lithuania

County
  
Vilnius County

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Population
  
110 (2001)

Ethnographic region
  
Aukštaitija

Eldership
  
Dūkštai eldership

Local time
  
Wednesday 12:31 AM

Miežionys

Municipality
  
Vilnius district municipality

Weather
  
6°C, Wind S at 10 km/h, 90% Humidity

Miežionys (Polish: Mieżańce) is a village in the Vilnius district municipality, Lithuania. According to the 2001 census, its population was 110.

Map of Mie%C5%BEionys 14230, Lithuania

From 1923 to 1939 the village was located in Wilno Voivodeship, in the north-eastern part of the Second Polish Republic. After the Nazi German and Soviet invasions of Poland in September 1939 the village was transferred to Lithuania according to the Soviet–Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty.

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.

References

Miežionys Wikipedia