Iwye

Iwye Іўе
View of the town, August 2010
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Iwye
Coordinates: 53°55′N 25°46′E
Country	Belarus
Voblast	Hrodna Region
Raion	Iwye district
Mentioned	1444
Population
• Total	9,684
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	231337
Area code	+375 1595
License plate	4

Iwye (Belarusian: Іўе [ˈiʊje]; Lithuanian: Yvija; Russian: Ивье [ˈivʲjɪ]; Polish: Iwje; Yiddish: אייוויע Eyvye) is a city and former shtetl in Belarus in the Hrodna Province, 158 km east of Hrodna. It is a station on the railway line between Lida and Maladzyechna. It was the site of a dangerous rescue mission by the Bielski Brothers in late 1942, as the Germans prepared to liquidate the ghetto, as the area was occupied during Operation Barbarossa. The population of Iwye was 8,900 in 1995.

People

• Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, Rav of Vilnius, born in Iwye
• Moshe Shatzkes, Rav of Iwye, 1913–1941

Sights

• Saints Peter and Paul Church
• Old wooden mosque

External links

• In memory of the Jewish community of Iwye
• Photos on Radzima.org
• Website of local television "Ивье ТВ"
• Iwye at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Iwye, Belarus at JewishGen