Ruth Leiserowitz's article about Smalininkai (Schmalleningken) a small but fascinating border town at the southernmost tip of the Memel region has now been published online in English by the University…
Lecture in Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Modernizers in an East Prussian village. Jewish shopkeepers from 1860 onwards by Ruth Leiserowitz (University of Klaipėda) and Jews in East Prussia November 24,…
The following is a summary of the lecture by Michael Leiserowitz from the "Jews in East Prussia" association
We saw Shtetl on the border and places of the former German Jewish Kehila: The todays Silute County south of Klaipeda includes the former German Heydekrug area.
We met Eugenius Bunka, the son of the last Jew of Plunge.
Visit of the Jewish community in Klaipeda that provides religious services and commemorates the Jewish history and culture of the port city.
Good news for anyone interested in the history of East Prussia: you can now download the book, how Jews lived in East Prussia in the 19th century and up until World War II, free of charge.
83 years ago, the first deportation train, which brought Jews from Königsberg, Tilsit and Allenstein to their death in Minsk, headed for its terrible destination. On the evening of June 24 1942 men, women and children had boarded the wagons.
There are always new stories about Jewish families from Königsberg – now on the occasion of the laying of a Stolperstein for Ernst Lipstein from Königsberg.