Iwye (Belarusian: Іўе, romanized: Iŭje,[a] IPA: [ˈiʊje]; Russian: Ивье, romanized: Ivye, IPA: [ˈivʲjɪ]; Lithuanian: Yvija; Polish: Iwie; Yiddish: איוויע, romanized: Ivye) is a town and former shtetl in Grodno Region, Belarus.
It serves as the administrative center of Iwye District.
[1][2] It is located 158 kilometres (98 mi) east of Grodno.
[1] 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.
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