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.
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.
Nechama Drober has passed away. She was an important voice because she witnessed the fate of the Jews of Königsberg,
Three Short film clips from the Jewish Museum in Kaliningrad are presented here, they can be found on YouTube and Instagram.
In the local history museum of Braniewo there we found hangers with the advertising imprints of a fashion store of Jacob Klein, Walter's father.
Fans, curious first-time visitors and tourists came. Some even said that this was their first time entering a synagogue after a very long period for the family.
The suitcase is on the way ........... a suitcase packed with things that a child possessed when it set off alone without parents to a foreign country in the Kindertransport in the 1930s.