73.2 miles W of Minsk
Latitude: 53º56' Longitude: 25º46'
Also known as Ewie, Ivie, Iwie, Ive and Iwje
Before the first World War part of the Russian Empire, 1921- 1939 part of Poland,
1939- 1941 part of the Soviet Union, 1944 - 1990s part of the Soviet Union. Now in Belarus
As most of you know, Yad Vashem has put on its website a new category
of
documents called Shoah-Related Lists. In particular, there is a
document of
77 pages that can be looked at, that is described as a list of people
murdered in the Grodno Ghetto. Although Yad Vashem maintains that its
description is correct, my own impression is that it is a list of Jews
murdered in the Ivye Ghetto.
I looked for a few of the names on the list in Pages of Testimony
connected
to Grodno, without success. On the other hand, I was able to find a
few
families that are on the list, among the Pages of Testimony connected
to
Ivye. There are about 30 people with the name BAKSHT listed on the
first
page of the document. This name is not in the Pages of Testimony of
Grodno,
but is common in Ivye. Likewise among Family Finders at Jewish Gen.
In any case, those interested in Ivye should take a look at this
document.
It's in Russian and sometimes hard to read! It can be found by going
to Yad
Vashem website, preferably with Internet Explorer, clicking on Shoah
Related
Lists, typing in Grodno and leaving everything else blank. As of now,
36
items show up. Near the end there is one called List of Jews who
Perished
in
the Grodno Ghetto. It purports to have 10,850 names. Actually
2000-3000 is
more correct. (77 pages x 30 names/page = ?).
Jack Menes
Jerusalem
Searching: BUTKOW, GORDON, MENES, STERN, BINSTEIN, SPINDLER - All from
Grodno
Lida (which is due south of Vilna) the Lomzer Rav, R Moshe Shatzkes
was the Rav in Ivye and ended up at YU (BTW Rav Chaim Ozer was born in
Ivye]....
Chaim Leib ( Lyuka) Dworetsky was born in Ivye on 21.7.1927 to Ester Rachel ( nee Persky, of Volozhin) and Shmuel. His father was killed by the Nazis in 1941. His mother and only brother ( Asher, born in 1925) perished in May of 1942. Chaim escaped and joined rhe partisans. when the area was libarated he joined the Red Army. In May 1945 he left the area and a year later ( May of 1946) arrived in Eretz Israel. A student of the Technion,he was amongst the first to join the new Israeli army ( December of 1947).
He was a member of gdud 21 of "Carmeli" and was killed while fighting Kibbutz Yechiam in 27.3.1948
for his story in Hebrew: http://www.izkor.gov.il/izkor86.asp?t=7668
Dance Magazine, Dec, 1994 by Bonnie Sue Stein
Tamar Rogoff In the woods of Ivye, Belarus, near a memorial to Holocaust victims July 29-August 9,1994 Reviewed by Bonnie Sue Stein
New York City choreographer Tamar Rogoff created a powerful and moving performance in the woods of Ivye, Belarus, on the site where 2,500 Jews were massacred in 1942. The Ivye Project, inspired by stories of the village where many of Rogoff's ancestors were born, and buried, involved thirty-seven performers and as many technicians and townspeople from Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus, and the United States.
With pine boughs swaying and the sun blaring down, the magic began as we approached the memorial wall. Actor Kostas Smoriginas (the star of the Lithuanian National Theater), dressed in typical shtetl attire, beckoned us in Russian, Yiddish, and English. For two hours, as Guide and Guardian Angel, Smodginas transported us to Ivye, circa 1930, through poignant vignettes that echoed the music, dance, language, and daily life of a destroyed culture. Cardplayers joked and prayed; an elderly couple (played by local Jewish survivors) kissed over a samovar; and four-year-old Rita Gribova (from Ivye) was gently lured to sleep under a blanket with Hebrew lettering. Children learned their lessons from Sonia Komiserova (another local survivor), or fell asleep over their books; an amateur theater group hilariously bumbled through a rehearsal; and the gorgeous Sabbath Bride, danced by Ausra Gineityte (from the National Opera and Ballet of Lithuania), crossed a field of grass, butterflies dancing around her waist.
Among the notable U.S. performers were dancer Ariel Rogoff-Heitler; a five-piece kiezmer band led by composer Frank London, whose music transformed the woods; and David Rogow of New York's Yiddish theater as the venerable Rabbi.
Rogoff is a visionary artist who took her own family's tragedy and gave it universal meaning. After we had circled the woods, each character briefly appeared from behind the memorial wall, then slowly slipped away. We were reminded that the lively villagers we had seen would once again become a silent page in history.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1083/is_n12_v68/ai_15953399
Ariel Rogoff Flavin, left, and Claire Danes in "Edith & Jenny" at Performance Space 122
Related Links
The
Holocaust in Belarus: Ivye by Leonid Smilovitsky
The
list of the perished
Ellen
Sadove Renck site
Jewishgen;
Ivye, Lida uyezd, Vilna-Grodno gubernia, Belarus