Association News / Family Stories / Kaliningrad Region (Russia) / Poland

Klein’s hanger from Braunsberg

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.

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28th May 2023

Events / Jewish Museum Kaliningrad / Kaliningrad Region (Russia) / Synagogue Koenigsberg

Museum Night 2023

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.

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22nd May 2023

Association News / Events / Family Stories / Jewish Museum Kaliningrad

The suitcase is on the way

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.

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19th May 2023

Family research / Family Stories / Holocaust and Prosecution / Jewish Museum Kaliningrad / Kaliningrad Region (Russia)

Sandelowsky empowered for Eretz Israel

Insight into a new exhibition - Who knows more people? The landowner Walther Sandelowsky trained young people in agriculture since 1934 so that they could receive a certificate for immigration to Palestine.

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9th May 2023

Events / Jewish Museum Kaliningrad / Kaliningrad Region (Russia) / Koenigsberg - Kaliningrad / Synagogue Koenigsberg

Lecture in Lüneburg, Germany

From the Mission to Conceptualize a Museum. The Jewish History of Königsberg in Kaliningrad. Lecture by Ruth and Michael Leiserowitz

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6th May 2023

Association News / Family Stories / Jewish Museum Kaliningrad / Kaliningrad Region (Russia) / Koenigsberg - Kaliningrad / Tilsit - Sowetsk

Farewell to Koenigsberg

The first temporary exhibition since the opening of the Jewish Museum in the Kaliningrad Synagogue has arrived on site and was handed over.

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1st May 2023

Jewish Museum Kaliningrad / Kaliningrad Region (Russia)

Farewell to Königsberg

A new temporary exhibition deals with the escape and emigration of Jews from East Prussia. The exhibition, which will open in May 2023 at the Jewish Museum in Kaliningrad, will travel to other cities after the summer season.

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18th April 2023

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Intercontinental memories

Many of these books have been published by very small publishing houses, and other escape accounts have been published only in private settings. We are grateful for further tips.

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26th March 2023

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Jewish merchants – lecture

Feb 21 2023 On the occasion of the World Tourist Guide Day a lecture on "Jewish merchants, their goods and business in Königsberg and the region"

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14th March 2023

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Farewell to Königsberg

We are looking for example stories of families and individuals who had to flee from Königsberg, Tilsit, Insterburg, Gumbinnen or Eydtkuhnen, Region Northern East Prussia.

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10th March 2023