Walter Klein

Klein’s hanger from Braunsberg

In the local history museum of Braniewo there we found hangers with the advertising imprints of a fashion store of Jacob Klein, Walter’s father.

The suitcase is on the way

The suitcase is on the way
……….. a suitcase packed with things that a child possessed when it set off alone without parents to a foreign country in the Kindertransport in the 1930s.

Synagogue Kaliningrad People Rollup

Farewell to Koenigsberg

The first temporary exhibition since the opening of the Jewish Museum in the Kaliningrad Synagogue has arrived on site and was handed over.

Logo Museum Kaliningrad Synagogue

The museum online and on site

SEP 2022 – The museum is in operation The Jewish Museum in the Kaliningrad Synagogue started its operation on September 18, 2022. The first visitors

List Jews Sakai 1821

Current research on Šakiai

Šakiai: The work on the list is still going on. But already now it can be revealed that there were many grain merchants in the town, but also several glaziers and even a bookbinder.

Synagogue Kaliningrad Museum

Museum Media Production

These days we are combining historical photos and interviews with media designers to create a collage that will tell visitors about the fates of boys

Display in Museum

Museum Construction December

Israel – descendants of the great Königsberg banking family Marx lend an old family item to the exhibition. Leipzig – the first model of the small “show houses” for stories about Jews of the city of Königsberg is hanging.

Video Jewish Museum Kaliningrad

Trailer about the planned Museum

English with Hebrew subtitles Short clip about the coming museum in the Synagogue of Kaliningrad, the former Königsberg. Link to our Museum web page

East Prussian Heritage

Ostpreußische Erbschaft – a new article in the German newspaper Jüdische Allgemeine about the present museum project in Kaliningrad.