Memel – A City without Jews?
What happened to the Jews in Memel, and what were the consequences for the city following the annexation in 1939?
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20th March 2026
Painting missing
...... The painting of the then-young family was housed at the Jewish Museum Berlin and was photographed in 1934. Today, the painting is considered lost ......
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15th March 2026
Association News / Events / Jewish Museum Kaliningrad / Koenigsberg - Kaliningrad / Synagogue Koenigsberg
We are coming to Stuttgart April 15
April 15 2026, Ruth and Michael Leiserowitz will give a lecture in Stuttgart. Entrance for freeIt will focus on the project of the association “Jews in East Prussia.” In Kaliningrad,…
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18th February 2026
Gargždai – Museum Project
60% of the population in the neighbouring town of Klaipeda/Memel was Jewish. Together with the Regional Museum of Gargzdai/Gorzd, we want to research and present this interesting history of the historic border town in Lithuania.
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20th January 2026
Schmalleningken article online
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…
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24th December 2025
Modernizers in an East Prussian village
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,…
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20th November 2025
Conference contribution: The role of Jews at the border
The following is a summary of the lecture by Michael Leiserowitz from the "Jews in East Prussia" association
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28th September 2025
Excursion: East Prussia’s border regions with Lithuania Part 3
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.
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19th August 2025
Association News / Heydekrug - Silute (eng) / Holocaust and Prosecution / Memel - Klaipeda / Personalities
Excursion: East Prussia’s border regions with Lithuania Part 2
We met Eugenius Bunka, the son of the last Jew of Plunge.
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16th August 2025
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