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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 The citizens of Lithuania have the second highest count of individuals per capita who have been recognised by Yad Vashem as the Lithuanian Righteous Among the Nations, for saving Jews from extermination during the Holocaust in World War II. There ... *Marija Mališauskienė, a Lithuanian Righteous Among the Nations {{surname, Malisauskas Lithuanian-language surnames Toponymic surnames ...
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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 Maliszewo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lipno, within Lipno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship * Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) in Poland. * Kuyavian-Pomeranian is one of 13 ..., 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 * Karol Maliszewski (born 1960), Polish poet, prose writer, literary critic * Natalia Maliszewska (born 1995), Polish short track speed skater * Patrycja Maliszewska (born 1988), Polish short-track speed skater * Łukasz Maliszewski (born 1985) Polish footballer * Miros ...
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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 ...
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Lithuanian Righteous Among The Nations
The citizens of Lithuania have the second highest count of individuals per capita who have been recognised by Yad Vashem as the Lithuanian Righteous Among the Nations, for saving Jews from extermination during the Holocaust in World War II. There are , 924 Lithuanian men and women bestowed with the honour. The Lithuanian list includes not only Lithuanians, but also Polish and Russian citizens of Lithuania. 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 individuals were recog ...
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Lithuanian-language Surnames
Lithuanian (, ) is an East Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is the language of Lithuanians and the official language of Lithuania as well as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are approximately 2.8 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 1 million speakers elsewhere. Around half a million inhabitants of Lithuania of non-Lithuanian background speak Lithuanian daily as a second language. Lithuanian is closely related to neighbouring Latvian, though the two languages are not mutually intelligible. It is written in a Latin script. In some respects, some linguists consider it 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 its grammar and phonology, retaining archaic fe ...
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