We are sad to have just heard about Hanoch (Heiny) Ellert’s passing. He has reported about the fate of Jews from Heydekrug and Žemaičių Naumiestis in a video.
Update: At SEP 24 2021 Opening of the Museum of Local History in the building of the synagogue in Susz (Poland) the former West and East Prussian town Rosenberg. Invitation…
The Association Jews in East Prussia thanks all friends and supporters who accompany the work for the museum floor in the Kaliningrad synagogue. We are pleased with all the progress…
Space - feelings - decades - stories - fates - Interim status August 2021 Talks were held in Kaliningrad, technical details of the museum, located in the second floor of…
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…