Schmalleningken in Jerusalem
Jerusalem, October 30, 2024: A small songbook from Schmalleninken (Schmaleningken) clarifies: The synagogue was inaugurated on September 18, 1865! Schmaleningken (today Smalininkai in Lithuania) is
Nathan Grumach – Son, Notary and Cantor in Barczewo/Wartenburg
Since he had a beautiful voice, he liked to help out in the synagogue and sing there for services when he came home for Shabbat.
Struck by lightning
Memo August 1851 “… the Jewish herring merchant Jochim Goersch from Wystiten was struck dead by lightning in the village of Karklienen on August 25,
From the pictures by Max Sandelowsky
Here we see a group of trainees on an excursion to Schwarzort (Curonian Spit) in 1935.