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Town in Grodno region, Belarus

Town in Grodno, Belarus

Iwye Іўе (Belarusian) Ивье (Russian) Town Iwye Coordinates: 53°55′N 25°46′E / 53.917°N 25.767°E / 53.917; 25.767 Country Belarus Region Grodno District Iwye Population (2025)[1] • Total 6,906 Time zone UTC+3 (MSK) Postal code 231337 Area code +375 1595 License plate 4

**Iwye**[a] is a town in [Grodno region](/source/Grodno_region), [Belarus](/source/Belarus). It is the administrative center of [Iwye district](/source/Iwye_district). As of 2025[\[update\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iwye&action=edit), Iwye has a population of 6,906.

Iwye was historically a multicultural settlement with a [Jewish](/source/Jews) majority, but nearly all of the town's Jews were killed by the [Nazis](/source/Nazis) in the [Holocaust](/source/Holocaust). The architecture of many buildings in Iwye were influenced by the town's historical [Lipka Tatar](/source/Lipka_Tatars) community.

## Geography

Iwye is the administrative center of the [Iwye district](/source/Iwye_district) of [Grodno region](/source/Grodno_region). It is located 158 kilometres (98 mi) east of the regional capital [Grodno](/source/Grodno).[2]

## History

Iwye was historically a multiethnic and religiously diverse settlement with a Jewish majority. Beginning in the 15th century, the area was settled by Jews, [Roman Catholics](/source/Roman_Catholics), [Eastern Orthodox Christians](/source/Eastern_Orthodox_Christians), and Muslim [Lipka Tatars](/source/Lipka_Tatars).[3] There was also an [Arian](/source/Arianism) community in Iwye in the 16th century.[4] Iwye's population was over three-quarters Jewish by 1938, and the town had a [Tarbut](/source/Tarbut) school, an [association football](/source/Association_football) team, a fire brigade, a theater, and an orchestra.[3]

The Jewish community of Iwye was devastated by the mass killings of the [Holocaust](/source/Holocaust) during [World War II](/source/World_War_II). In 1942, [Nazi German](/source/Nazi_Germany) troops executed 2,500 Jews [by shooting](/source/Execution_by_shooting) in the nearby forest of Stonevichi, while 1,000 were confined to a [ghetto](/source/Ghetto) in the town's north.[3] A small group of 80 Jews survived by hiding or joining local [partisans](/source/Partisan_(military)) in their fight against the Nazis. The [railway](/source/Railway) line from [Lida](/source/Lida) to [Maladzyechna](/source/Maladzyechna), which stopped at Iwye and was used by the Nazis, was destroyed by partisans during the war.[5] After the war ended, the Holocaust survivors were "repatriated" to [Poland](/source/Poland), as control over Iwye changed from [prewar Poland](/source/Second_Polish_Republic) to the [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union).[3] Seven Jewish families remained in Iwye until the [dissolution of the Soviet Union](/source/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union) in 1991, and they all moved to [Israel](/source/Israel) soon thereafter. In 2009, the Belarusian government opened a museum in Iwye commemorating the town's Jewish history.[6]

## Architecture

The architecture of Iwye has been influenced by the Lipka Tatar community in particular, with the wooden mosque remaining a landmark of the town and Iwye bearing the nickname "the Tatar capital of Belarus". The mosque was built in 1882 and was the only mosque in the [Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic](/source/Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic).[3]

The [Saints Peter and Paul Church](/source/Saints_Peter_and_Paul_Church%2C_Iwye) is a Roman Catholic church protected by the Belarusian government as part of the country's "historical and cultural heritage".[7]

## Demographics

There are 6,906 people living in Iwye as of 2025[\[update\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iwye&action=edit).[1]

## Notable people

- [Chaim Ozer Grodzinski](/source/Chaim_Ozer_Grodzinski) (1863–1940), rabbi of Vilnius[8]

- [Moshe Shatzkes](/source/Moshe_Shatzkes) (1881–1958), rabbi of Iwye[9]

## See also

- [Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany](/source/Jewish_ghettos_established_by_Nazi_Germany)

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** - [Belarusian](/source/Belarusian_language): Іўе, [romanized](/source/Romanization_of_Belarusian): *Iŭje*, IPA: [\[ˈiʊje\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Belarusian) - [Russian](/source/Russian_language): Ивье, [romanized](/source/Romanization_of_Russian): *Ivye*, IPA: [\[ˈivʲjɪ\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Russian) - [Lithuanian](/source/Lithuanian_language): *Yvija* - [Polish](/source/Polish_language): *Iwie* - [Yiddish](/source/Yiddish_language): איוויע, [romanized](/source/Romanization_of_Yiddish): *Ivye*

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-pop_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-pop_1-1) ["Численность населения на 1 января 2025 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2024 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа"](https://web.archive.org/web/20250329210112/https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/solialnaya-sfera/naselenie-i-migratsiya/naselenie/statisticheskie-izdaniya/index_148168/) [Population as of 1 January 2025 and average annual population for 2024 in the Republic of Belarus by regions, districts, cities, and urban-type settlements]. *belsat.gov.by* (in Russian). [Government of Belarus](/source/Government_of_Belarus). Archived from [the original](https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/solialnaya-sfera/naselenie-i-migratsiya/naselenie/statisticheskie-izdaniya/index_148168/) on 29 March 2025. Retrieved 8 May 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-enc_3-0)** Gaponenko, Irina Olegovna (2004). *Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Гродзенская вобласць* [*Names of settlements of the Republic of Belarus: Grodno region*] (in Belarusian). [Minsk](/source/Minsk): Technalohija. p. 217. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [985-458-098-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/985-458-098-9).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Bill_&_Lewis_p._236_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Bill_&_Lewis_p._236_4-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Bill_&_Lewis_p._236_4-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-Bill_&_Lewis_p._236_4-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-Bill_&_Lewis_p._236_4-4) Bill, Stanley; Lewis, Simon (14 November 2023). [*Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives*](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Multicultural_Commonwealth/W5UFEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=I%C5%ADje&pg=PT236&printsec=frontcover). [University of Pittsburgh Press](/source/University_of_Pittsburgh_Press). p. 236. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-8229-9019-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8229-9019-2). Retrieved 15 June 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [*Belarus: pages of history*](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Belarus_pages_of_history/UDIVEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=I%C5%ADje&pg=PA120&printsec=frontcover). Litres. 15 May 2022. p. 120. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-5-04-162594-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-5-04-162594-8). Retrieved 15 June 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Неуловимый «Балтиец», или Партизанская одиссея Ивана Пролыгина"](https://lidanews.by/news/80-let-velikoy-pobedy/34807news.html) [The Elusive 'Baltiets', or the Partisan Odyssey of Ivan Prolygin]. *Lida News* (in Russian). Retrieved 20 June 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillLewis2023237_7-0)** [Bill & Lewis 2023](#CITEREFBillLewis2023), p. 237.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["List of protected monuments in Iwye District"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140714123738/http://ivje.gov.by/ru/region/history/istkultcennost). *Official Site of Iwye District* (in Russian). Archived from [the original](http://ivje.gov.by/ru/region/history/istkultcennost) on 14 July 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-glimpses_9-0)** [Sorasky, Aharon](/source/Aharon_Sorasky) (22 July 2010). "Glimpses of Greatness: Reb Chaim Ozer *Is* Klal Yisrael". *[Hamodia](/source/Hamodia) Features*. p. C3.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-YU_10-0)** ["Harav Hagaon R. Moshe Shatzkes ZT"L 1882–1958"](https://www.yu.edu/riets/about/mission-history/historic-roshei/moshe-shatzkes). *YU.EDU*. [Yeshiva University](/source/Yeshiva_University). Retrieved 16 December 2020.

## External links

- [Iwye, Belarus](https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1943674) at [JewishGen](/source/JewishGen)

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