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.
The first temporary exhibition since the opening of the Jewish Museum in the Kaliningrad Synagogue has arrived on site and was handed over.
SEP 2022 – The museum is in operation The Jewish Museum in the Kaliningrad Synagogue started its operation on September 18, 2022. The first visitors were the children of the…
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.
The exhibition walls have been covered with the large print, inside the many varied displays get light and sound ....
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 and girls from the Jewish…
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.
English with Hebrew subtitles https://youtu.be/g1UvJYkhBpM Short clip about the coming museum in the Synagogue of Kaliningrad, the former Königsberg.Link to our Museum web page
Ostpreußische Erbschaft - a new article in the German newspaper Jüdische Allgemeine about the present museum project in Kaliningrad.
Prof. Ruth Leiserowitz will talk Nov 7th in Olsztyn (Poland) about the history and the revival of Jewish life in Kaliningrad in her lecture entitled "Synagogue in Kaliningrad - a history written anew".