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Mališauskas
Mališauskas is a Lithuanian-language variant of the Polish surname Maliszewski. It may be transliterated into English as Malishauskas. Notable people with this surname include: * Vidmantas Mališauskas (born 1963), Lithuanian chess Grandmaster *Henrikas Mališauskas, a Lithuanian Righteous Among the Nations Righteous Among the Nations ( he, חסיד אומות העולם) is an honorary title given by the State of Israel to citizens of other countries who risked their lives during the Holocaust rescuing Jewish people. , 915 people from Lithuania have ... *Marija Mališauskienė, a Lithuanian Righteous Among the Nations {{surname, Malisauskas Lithuanian-language surnames Toponymic surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maliszewski
Maliszewski ( ; feminine: Maliszewska; plural: Maliszewscy) is a surname of Polish-language origin. It is a toponymic surname associated with one of the places in Poland named Maliszew, Maliszewo, or Maliszów. the Lithuanianized version is Mališauskas. The Russian-language versions of the surnames are Malishevsky (masculine), Malishevskaya (feminine). Notable people with this surname include: * Anna Maliszewska (born 1993), Polish modern pentathlete * Natalia Maliszewska (born 1995), Polish short track speed skater * Patrycja Maliszewska (born 1988), Polish short-track speed skater * Łukasz Maliszewski (born 1985) Polish footballer * Mirosław Maliszewski (born 1968), Polish politician * Stas Maliszewski (born 1944), American football player * Witold Maliszewski Witold Maliszewski (russian: Витольд Осипович Малишевский, uk, Вітольд Йосифович Малішевський; 20 July 1873 – 18 July 1939) was a Polish composer, founder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vidmantas Mališauskas
Vidmantas Mališauskas (born 4 August 1963) is a Lithuanian chess Grandmaster (1993). Chess career He won the Lithuanian Chess Championship on six occasions: in 1987, 1989, 1990, 1998 (shared with Šarūnas Šulskis), 2003 and 2006. Played for Lithuania in the Chess Olympiads of 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2006 and in the European Team Chess Championships of 1992 and 2007. Other notable results include 2nd (behind Maxim Matlakov) in the Gipslis Memorial 2009 and 2nd (behind Vadim Shishkin) in the Lubawka Gate Open 2009. Chess strength According to Chessmetrics, at his peak in May 1993 Mališauskas's play was equivalent to a rating of 2666, and he was ranked number 49 in the world. His best single performance was at POL-chT Bydgoszcz, 1990, where he scored 6 of 6 possible points (100%) against 2472-rated opposition, for a performance rating of 2671. In the November 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill lev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuanian Righteous Among The Nations
Righteous Among the Nations ( he, חסיד אומות העולם) is an honorary title given by the State of Israel to citizens of other countries who risked their lives during the Holocaust rescuing Jewish people. , 915 people from Lithuania have been honored as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem for saving Jews during World War II. The Lithuanian list includes not only Lithuanians, but also Poles and Russians. The search for the righteous is ongoing but it has become increasingly difficult to find survivors who can confirm the fact of rescue and tell their story. Most of the Jews were saved by peasants as it was easier to hide them in remote farms and most rescued Jews were children as they attracted less attention. More Jews were saved in Samogitia (western Lithuania) than in other areas of Lithuania. Many of the rescued Jews were helped by multiple people. For example, Glikas family (parents and five children) was helped by about twenty Lithuanian families; ten individual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuanian-language Surnames
Lithuanian ( ) is an Eastern Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is the official language of Lithuania and one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.8 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 200,000 speakers elsewhere. Lithuanian is closely related to the neighbouring Latvian language. It is written in a Latin script. It is said to be the most conservative of the existing Indo-European languages, retaining features of the Proto-Indo-European language that had disappeared through development from other descendant languages. History Among Indo-European languages, Lithuanian is conservative in some aspects of its grammar and phonology, retaining archaic features otherwise found only in ancient languages such as Sanskrit (particularly its early form, Vedic Sanskrit) or Ancient Greek. For this reason, it is an important source for the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
