Shana Tova – Happy New Year!
Before us lies the year 5784 of the Jewish calendar.
Behind us is the first year of the opened Museum New Synagogue Kaliningrad.
Pilviškiai 1798
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.
Rabbi Moses Nadel
Rabbi Moses Nadel was buried in Koenigsberg. We can give face and history to his name: Nadel was born ab. 1882 in Viešintos (Lithuania), was ordinated by the Vilna Beit Din and served as a shochet and mohel in Krekenava.
Farewell to Nechama Drober
Nechama Drober has passed away. She was an important voice because she witnessed the fate of the Jews of Königsberg,