Murder Story of Iwieniec Jews in Korduny

On a certain day, there arrived two trucks with SS men, who gave an order to the local police to round up all the Jewish men and bring them to the marketplace. Since there was almost no one in the houses, they brought in the Jews working in the fields behind the city. They were able to gather 75 men. The police declared that the Jewish arrestees could buy their freedom, provided that their families pay the authorities with valuables – such as jewelry, leather, and textiles. Eli Zak and Feygl Molot ran to the local Jewish homes in order to gather it up. Meanwhile, the Germans entertained themselves in the marketplace: they caught two disabled women from the poorhouse, Yentl and Michleh Shleymes, and ordered them to dance with Zalman the water carrier, relishing the spectacle. Meanwhile, the Jews brought the ransom, the money, and the valuables that the murderers demanded. They loaded it all into their trucks and drove the 75 Jews to the village of Korduny, where they shot them.

On the 5th of September, 1941, the SS arrived and ordered all male Jews to assemble in the marketplace. But the Jews, knowing from bitter experience what this smelled of, didn't go out into the marketplace, but hid away. The local police began to search the homes, dragging whomever they found to the market. In the end, the SS sent the local police and took the Jews away from work. 51 Jews were gathered and led to the village of Korduny, 7 kilometers from Ivenets, and shot there. Among the murdered were: Ruvn Oshman, Shmuel Zak, Eliohu Zak, Meriam Szucht, Zalman Szif, Michael Berger, Yerochmiel Rolnik, Eliohu Wismanski, etc.