Jews in East Prussia – Research and Teaching about the Jewish life in the former German East Prussia, that is today divided in Poland, Russia and Lithuania.

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.

Potrait Ernst Lipstein

Stolperstein for Ernst Lipstein from Königsberg

There are always new stories about Jewish families from Königsberg – now on the occasion of the laying of a Stolperstein for Ernst Lipstein from Königsberg.

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.

Potrait Ivar Segalowitz

Jewish photographers of Klaipeda / Memel

Some remarkes about Jewish photographers by us, contribution to Camera Obscura, the cultural history and provenance research project of Pre-Second World War Lithuanian Jewish photographs.