Bezdonys
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 Lithuania
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| District : | Vilnius | ||
| Rajong municipality : | Vilnius | ||
| Coordinates : | 54 ° 48 ' N , 25 ° 31' E | ||
| Inhabitants (place) : | 743 (2011) | ||
| Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
| Postal code : | LT-15023 | ||
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Bezdonys ( Polish Bezdany ) is a town in the district of Vilnius , northeast of the city of Vilnius . Bezdonys is today the center of the administrative community (lit. Bezdonių seniūnija ). In the town there is the Mother Mary of Mercy of the Gate of Dawn Church, built in 1937 . There is the Lithuanian Sauletekis secondary school (lit. Bezdonių Saulėtekio pagrindinė mokykla ) and the Bezdonys secondary school as well as the Polish Juliusz Słowacki secondary school. There is a post office in the town (zip code: LT-15023) and the Bezdonys train station. The Bezdonė , a left tributary of the Neris, flows through the town .
Jan Długosz mentioned in 1415 that King Władysław II visited Jagiełło Bezdonys. In 1518 the estate was handed over to the Vilna Mayor Ulrich Hosse by King Sigismund I. On September 26, 1908, a combat group of the Polish Socialist Party led by Józef Piłsudski attacked a mail train.
In 1915 Bezdonys received the status of a town. During the Second World War, the Jewish population of Bezdonys was murdered in the course of the Holocaust . Not far from the village was a labor camp that functioned as a satellite camp of the Vilna ghetto . At least 350 Jews were murdered in this camp.
Almost all of the remaining Polish residents (except three families) were forced to resettle in Poland after the Second World War .
Twin cities
Web links
- Miesteliai.lt photo
- YadVashem.org Holocaust