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Pictures

• A postcard of Iwje from World War I
• Pictures of Iwje from her May 1999 trip by Harriet Kasow
• YIVO's marvelous on-line photgraph collection has 14 pictures of Ivye.  You'll have to register to use the site - it's free.  Enter the town name as I've spelled it here.
  
• Photgraph made in an Iwje photographic studio
• There are pictures of Ivye at the bottom of the Ivye frame in Shtetls of Belarus
• The Holocaust Monument in Ivye, taken in July 2003.  These and the images below all donated by Kazimierz Niechwiadowicz
• The school in Iwje, 1938
  
• A view of a small cemetery in Lipniszki, taken in Aug 2002.
• Kazimierz Niechwiadowicz gave me 4 images of former residents of Subotniki, taken in the 1930s.    They are:  the Fire Brigade, school children on a trip to Vilnius, 4 men, of whom one is Tuvia Bielski and two others are policemen, and a picture of the 1937 wedding of Jan Szpinta & Ola Soltan, which includes Mones Daniel. If anyone recognizes a person still living in them, please contact me & I'll remove the picture[s] in question.
• Two further group shots of school children, of whom some are very likely Jewish.  If anyone recognizes a person still living in them, please contact me & I'll remove the picture[s] in question.
• Pictures of tombstones from the Jewish cemetery in Traby

Background Information

Iwje Today: Iuje, Belarus

• Iuje has a page in the "Virtual Guide to Belarus". Click on "cities", then find Iuje.
• Narrative of a recent trip to Ivje by Harriet Kasow reprinted with permission of Sharsheret Hadorot

Information on individual towns

• Bakshty
• Iwje
• Iwje, from Slownik Geograficzny
• Incorporation papers location for 2 Landmanshaftn for people from Ivje. From the Jewish Genealogical Society of New York Home Page,  click on  "New  York Landsmanshaften & Other Organizations".  Look for Evia .
• There are Landsmanshaftn cemetery plots in the New York area. From the Jewish Genealogical Society of New York Home Page,  click on "10,200 Burial Societies in the NY Metro Area" under "Exclusive Resources".  Enter "Ivye" into the search box.
• Beth Haknesseth Anshe Alshan V'Anshe Iwie is listed in a 1939 WPA inventory of existing and recently closed Shuls.  Founded by groups from Alshan [Alsinai] and Iwje in 1888, they had a 2-story brick building on 63 Montgomery St. in NYC from 1906, and rented a loft at 32 Chrystie St. before that.  These data are from card #52, on reel 321 of the WPA microfilm series at the New York Municipal Archives on 31 Chambers St.  On reel 322, #184 is the additional information that the Secretary is B. Schmokkler, 213 E. Broadway, & that there's a death register going back 50 years &  one membership ledger going back 30 year.  We have no information as to the fate of these records in the intervening 1/2 century!  In a 1921 Directory, the Rabbi was listed as H. Lipnitsky.
  
• The Holocaust in Ivje - From the Wiesenthal Center, which keeps reorganizing its website. Do a web search for Iwje and Wiesenthal.
• Lipniszki (including Scicanie)
• Koszelewo
• Subotniki
• The Jewish Community in Subotniki
• Traby cemetery listing

Holocaust

• Summary of the events surrounding the mass murders of the Jews in Iwje in 1942, from files held by the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archive
• Testimony of Dr. Izak Kaplinski, from files held by the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archive
  

Web Pages for individual localities

• Iwje (under construction, contact Steve Levine)

Books & Videos

• Rogoff, Tamar  "Summer in Ivye" 2001.  This film is commercially available, but it's not priced anywhere close to mass market prices, like PBS productions would be.  To find sources, do a web search for the title as written here.
  
• Shumkler, Arie Hulyah ba-sharsheret Ramat-Gan: A. Shmukler, 1982. This privately published book is the autobiography of a Holocaust survivor from Iwje.
• Yizkor Book: Iwje and Lipnishki, with Gavia and Traby

Yizkor Book Translation

• Ivje, Lipnishki, Gavya and Traby. Robert Robbins is coordinating further efforts to translate more of the Yizkor book.

Famous Sons

• Ashkenazi, Isaac ben Jacob, Talmudist and Chassid, brother of Kabbalist R. Mose Ivier.  A Kabbalistic work, Beit Olam, (published in Vilna, 1820) was found in his estate on his death.  It is unclear if this is his work or that of an earlier Kabbalist. [Encyclopedia Judaica, vol III, p. 471, Berlin:  1931]
• Shmukler, Rabbi Nathaniel (1910-1991) (scroll down a long way, look to the right), born in Iwje, was active in Mizrachi, and exiled to Siberia in 1942, until 1950. He was exiled again, but escaped, and emigrated to Israel in 1973.
  

 

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Yizkor Necrologies Database

1921 Census (published 1923) for the Zablocs administrative district

General Information Entries from the 1929 Polish Business Directory

Clicking on highlighted locality names will bring up the 1929 business directory listings.

NAME OF LOCALITY	LAT/LONG	DISTRICT/ UCHASTOK	YIZKOR	OTHER REF.	DESIG- NATION	town comprised of:	TOWN	POWIAT/ District	JUSTICE OF THE PEACE	ADMINIS- TRATIVE COURT	POPU- LATION
Bakshty/ Baksty	5348 2441	Lida uezd, first uchastok		1912: Yeshi- bar Zachri Mendel Hacohen Katz (1856-?) was rabbi; son of rabbi in Radin but could be another town NE, nearer to Minsk;	wies and gmina		Nowy Dwor*
Chowan- szczyzna		Lida uezd, first uchastok					Iwje
Gavia/ Gav'ya	5351 2536	Lida uezd
Iwje/Ivye	5356 2546	Lida uezd, first uchastok	- X -		gmina wiejska	Chowan- szczyzna, Stolnie- wicze, Urciszki	Iwje
Iwje/Ivye	5356 2546	Lida uezd, first uchastok	- X -		miasteczko (small city)		Iwje	Lida	seat	Wilno	2,731
Lipniszki/ Lipnishki	5400 2537	Lida uezd			miasteczko (small city)		Lipniszki	Lida	Wilno	Wilno	1,061
Lipniszki/ Lipnishki	5400 2537	Lida uezd			gmina wiejska		Lipniszki
Koszelewo		Lida uezd?			wies (village) & gmina						679
Scicanie		Lida uezd			wies (village)		Lipniszki	Lida	Lipniszki	Wilno	518
Stoniewiecze/ Stolniewicz		Lida uezd, first uchastok					Iwje
Subotniki/ Subbotniki	5406 2545	Lida uezd - first uchastok			miasteczko (small city) and gmina wiejska	Zamloslaw	Subotniki	Lida	Iwje	Wilno	542
Traby	5409 2555	Lida uezd
Urcisaki/ Urciszki		Lida uezd, first uchastok					Iwje
Zabloc/ Zabolot'/ Zablots'	5356 2451	Lida uezd			miasteczko (small town) and gmina wiejska	Solta- niszki	Zabloc	Lida	Lida	Wilno	258
Zamloslaw		Lida uezd - first uchastok					Subotniki

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