Anniversary year for Jews in East Prussia
A new feature is the additional Facebook page in Polish under the name "Żydzi w Prusach Wschodnich" and with Lissi's profile picture.
A new feature is the additional Facebook page in Polish under the name "Żydzi w Prusach Wschodnich" and with Lissi's profile picture.
A young married couple in Tilsit before the turn of the century.
There was great joy that, after more than 80 years, there was once again such a facility for Jewish life in the town.
To celebrate the reopening, we are looking for pictures and documents of the families who used to live in Wartenburg.
Read here about various news related to the commemoration of the largest massacre on the territory of the German Reich, today on the territory of the Kaliningrad region.
"Farewell to Warmia and Masuria" Following the great success of the special exhibition "Farewell to Königsberg", a second part of this project is to be created in early summer 2024 and will travel through places in Warmia and Masuria.
At the lecture on November 24 in Olsztyn, Ruth Leiserowitz presented some new findings and discoveries about the Jewish history of the city to an interested audience. We got to…
On 2023 Nov 10 tombstone fragments with the name Rosa Segalowski were found in the north-eastern part.
A ceremony was held to present the official marking of the Jewish cemetery of Johannisburg in Masuria, that was established in the 19th century.
When the small and still very young town of Pilviškiai came under Prussian administration in 1795 during the Third Partition of Poland-Lithuania, a census of the Jewish inhabitants was arranged. It took place in 1798.