Deportation Train Koensigsberg

83 YEARS DEPORTATION

83 years ago, the first deportation train, which brought Jews from Königsberg, Tilsit and Allenstein to their death in Minsk, headed for its terrible destination. On the evening of June 24 1942 men, women and children had boarded the wagons.

A woman with hat in the picture Young WIZO

Photographer of Jewish Memel?

Leon Balk – it is currently very exciting to find out more about this photographer, who was apparently the photographer of the Jewish scene in Klaipeda / Memel in the interwar period.

The Rosenthals from Lyck / Ełk

The tenement house in Lyck with its outbuilding, warehouse, garages, sheds and stables was used by Isidore Rosenthal’s haulage company “Rosenthal & Sohn”, which had been founded by his father.