We are pleased to announce that thanks to the cooperation of Ralph Salinger in Israel (JewishVilkaviskis.org) and Michael Leiserowitz from the Association of Jews in East Prussia, another source has been added to the database "Jews in Königsberg". It will one day become the basis for an information centre on Jews in Königsberg.
Meanwhile there are more fascinating sites to find the fate of individual persons. You can also search by address - Who all lived at a particular address in 1938? Check…
Unfortunately we had to carry a member of our association to the grave. We have created a page in German and English on which we and others tell about him.…
Vištytis (Polish: Wisztyniec, German: Wystiten, Yiddish: ווישטינעץ Vishtinets) was a dynamic shtetel (town) on the border with East Prussia, with a Polish, Prussian, French, Russian, Soviet and Lithuanian history. https://youtu.be/Soc4iK2PjYQ…
10 years "Jewish holiday home Neuhaeuser"Line up for the children's festival In the early summer of 1921 a Jewish children's holiday home was built in Neuhäuser, which was based on…
He was born in 1848 in Vilkaviškis as Hosias Rischmann and had received his education as a young man in a yeshiva in Vilnius and at Salanter in Kaunas. Since 1895 he was in charge of the congregation in Seckenburg.
Excursions through East and West Prussia. These places changed their rulers several times in history, which also had an impact on the migration of Jews overseas and within Prussia.
We like to share this initiatives on the history of the Jews in Zalewo and have therefore translated this issue from Polish into English.
We invite you to take the opportunity to visit the exhibition of 2017! Learn more about the little known aspects of life in Königsberg at the turn of the century.…
Increased cooperation with local initiatives will lead to more and more research results from Polish being made available in English and German to descendants living all over the world.