On August 2, 1941 units of Einsatzgruppe B and the Security Police took all the Jewish men from the age of 20 to 60 to the market square and carried out a selection there. They then took 220 Jewish members of the intelligentsia – such as rabbis and school teachers, and former shop owners and bookkeepers, to the Stonewicze Forest, 1.5-2 kilometers southeast of Iwje and shot them there. Several non-Jews, former Communist functionaries, were shot together with the Jewish men. The second murder operation at the Stonewicze Forest was carried out on May 12, 1942. On the previous day the local auxiliary police ordered the Jewish council to provide a group of about 100 men with shovels and spades to dig some trenches. Then Lida Gebietskommissar Hanweg arrived, summoned the members of the Jewish council, and informed them that about 800 Jews, elderly and infirm ones, were going to be shot. For this purpose, the Judenrat was required to pay a large "contribution." At dawn on May 12 the German squad that had arrived from Lida assembled all the Iwje Jews at the market square. Many people were shot after they had assembled. The people collected atthe market square had to kneel and wait for several hours. Leopold Windisch, Hanweg's deputy for Jewish matters, selected 200-300 Jews who had legitimate working papers; members of the killing squad took them under guard to the ghetto of Lida. During the second selection Windisch and Rudolf Werner, the head of the economic section of the Gebietskommissar's office, selected Jews who were considered capable of working. Elderly and sick people, as well as large families with small children, were taken to a nearby church. Three hours later they were taken under guard to the Stonewicze Forest. 2,300 Jews were killed there on that day.

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