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…
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…
Königsberg / Kaliningrad. For an exhibition in the rebuilt synagogue on the topic "Jewish School in Königsberg" we are looking for pictures, documents and stories of people who attended the…
About this unmarked cemetery we can tell many stories, but at the end of 2020 a new story was added. The area of the Königsberg New Jewish Cemetery in Kaliningrad…
We thank this foundation for its support this year! In times of persecution and humiliation by the German nation the founder survived with the help of sincere individuals and the Bosch company and escaped extermination as almost the only one in his family. Out of gratitude for their own happiness and the help of private and business friends in difficult life situations, the widow Hildegard Losten initiated the foundation.
We are pleased to announce that thanks to the cooperation of Ralph Salinger in Israel (JewishVilkaviskis.org) and Michael Leiserowitz from the Association of Jews in East Prussia, another source has been added to the database "Jews in Königsberg". It will one day become the basis for an information centre on Jews in Königsberg.
Unfortunately we had to carry a member of our association to the grave. We have created a page in German and English on which we and others tell about him.…
Vištytis (Polish: Wisztyniec, German: Wystiten, Yiddish: ווישטינעץ Vishtinets) was a dynamic shtetel (town) on the border with East Prussia, with a Polish, Prussian, French, Russian, Soviet and Lithuanian history. https://youtu.be/Soc4iK2PjYQ…