Olsztyn in Poland, Allenstein was the centre of southern East Prussia. In this series we tell stories of Allenstein Jews with photos owned by their descendants. Paulina Mendelsohn (born 1882…
After the end of the war, the stolen libraries reached Offenbach, the Offenbach Archival Depot (photo). This was the central collection point for the literature stolen by the Nazis. More…
Avraham Lewin from the Kibbutz Lavi has told the story of his family in a Hebrew book. Translated the title is “Life Story” He was born in 1924 in Koenigsberg and…
Yael Naaman from Jerusalem has told the story of her family by means of an extensive correspondence and compiled as a Hebrew book. Translated the title is "The Letters in Toni's Suitcase,…
In search of traces of the Königsberg library, the association "Jews in East Prussia" drove to Jerusalem and visited Dr. Irene Shirun-Grumach on 9 February 2019. Her father, Ernst Grumach,…
The Jewish public libraries were confiscated in 1939. By order of the RSHA [Reich Main Security Office] Department VII, the packing in crates and the transport to Berlin had to…
As early as the summer of 1938, Nazi authorities ordered that all Jewish libraries be registered. The order for the Reichspogromnacht also meant that archive material from the synagogues had…
In preparation for a new exhibition project on the emigration of Jews from Königsberg, the Association Jews in East Prussia visited the former Königsberg resident Rachel Dror in Stuttgart in…
Sensburg was a German town in East Prussia, today it is the Polish town Mrągowo. Committed Polish citizens of this city take care of the memory of the former Jewish…
Entry to the writer Abraham Mapu from the directory of the Chewra Kadischa in Königsberg. Mapu, who was from Kowno, died at the age of 59 years on 9 October…