However, all over the world, there are Jewish families who connect their roots with today’s Klaipeda. They managed to flee Europe at the end of the 1930s. In their language, they also took with them memories of their old hometown. (....)
class photo from Ortelsburg (today Szczytno / Poland) from 1886 In a private album in Germany is the following class photo from Ortelsburg (today Szczytno / Poland) from 1886 was…
We are looking for a photographer from Eydtkuhnen in New York, Else Newman née Kamnitzer 1912-1999
Michael Wieck had already published his memoirs of his time in Königsberg under Nazi rule and Soviet occupation in the 1980s, before the topic of Königsberg became en vogue in…
The catalog of the exhibition "Jews in Königsberg at the turn of the century" is now online! Link to the English edition >> Link to the Russian edition Ссылка на…
Wanted: Family of Gustav Lossau (born 1904 in Königsberg).The locksmith Gustav Lossau had a Jewish wife Edith Eva Spicker.Together with their five children, the family lived at Plantage 22 in…
In Palmnicken a massacre of approximately 3,000, most Polish Jewish women, was carried out during the night of January 31 to February 1, 1945. An annual memorial march of the…
Königsberg / Kaliningrad. For an exhibition in the rebuilt synagogue on the topic "Jewish School in Königsberg" we are looking for pictures, documents and stories of people who attended the…
About this unmarked cemetery we can tell many stories, but at the end of 2020 a new story was added. The area of the Königsberg New Jewish Cemetery in Kaliningrad…
The Hanukkah hit "Ner Li" was composed by a man from Königsberg!