Association News / Events / Family Stories / Memel - Klaipeda / Personalities

Leon

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18th October 2025

Association News / Events / Kaliningrad Region (Russia) / Lithuania / New East Prussia / Poland

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

Association News / Heydekrug - Silute (eng) / Personalities

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

Irma, Ralph from Vistitis visiting Feliks Pozemskis in Klaipeda

Association News / Heydekrug - Silute (eng) / Memel - Klaipeda / Personalities

Excursion: East Prussia’s border regions with Lithuania Part 1

Visit of the Jewish community in Klaipeda that provides religious services and commemorates the Jewish history and culture of the port city.

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4th August 2025

Association News / Family Stories / Heydekrug - Silute (eng) / Holocaust and Prosecution / Kaliningrad Region (Russia) / Lithuania / Memel - Klaipeda / Poland / Tilsit - Sowetsk

Download the e-book “Sabbatleuchter …”

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.

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21st July 2025

Association News / Events / Poland

Jewish culture and history in Barczewo

Sounds, images, great atmosphere Guests from Łódź and Warsaw at the cultural studio synagogue Barczewo (Wartenburg) on 2025 January 6

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12th January 2025

Association News / Lithuania

Schmalleningken in Jerusalem

Jerusalem, October 30, 2024: A small songbook from Schmalleninken (Schmaleningken) clarifies: The synagogue was inaugurated on September 18, 1865! Schmaleningken (today Smalininkai in Lithuania) is the easternmost town in the…

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20th November 2024

Association News / Family research / Family Stories / Holocaust and Prosecution / Kaliningrad Region (Russia) / Lithuania / Personalities

From the pictures by Max Sandelowsky

Here we see a group of trainees on an excursion to Schwarzort (Curonian Spit) in 1935.

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3rd September 2024

Association News

Polin Museum Book recommendations

Further reading on the core exhibition at the Polin Museum. Personal recommendations by Michael Leiserowitz.

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24th August 2024