It is a village that paid for the "Partition of Poland" at the end of XVIII century. However in 1999 the President of Lithuania granted to Vištytis the City Coat of Arms again. A deeper tragedy crossed Vištytis during the Holocaust. The village had a population of 1000 and almost 400 of them were Jews. They were not deported. They all were murdered there. Not by the Nazis, but by Catholic collaborators speaking Lithuanian language...
Wisztyniec - Vištytis - Wystite, 566 inhabitants. They gained city rights in 1570, but lost them in 1776.
ReplyDeleteIt is a village that paid for the "Partition of Poland" at the end of XVIII century. However in 1999 the President of Lithuania granted to Vištytis the City Coat of Arms again.
ReplyDeleteA deeper tragedy crossed Vištytis during the Holocaust. The village had a population of 1000 and almost 400 of them were Jews. They were not deported. They all were murdered there. Not by the Nazis, but by Catholic collaborators speaking Lithuanian language...