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.
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Family Grünbaum in Ortelsburg
In a private album in Germany is the following class photo from Ortelsburg (today Szczytno / Poland) from 1886 was found. The girls are probably
Looking for a Photographer
We are looking for a photographer from Eydtkuhnen in New York, Else Newman née Kamnitzer 1912-1999
Wanted: Families Lossau and Spicker
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
Riddle solved after 10 years, the only gravestone got a face.
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
Geni: 1.100 Profiles of Jews in Koenigsberg reached
The project “Jewish families from Königsberg, today Kaliningrad2, which we started in the genealogist network Geni.com, has now recorded over 1.100 profiles! 31 people are
Index of Jews in Königsberg evaluated
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.
Genealogy – hints
Meanwhile there are more fascinating sites to find the fate of individual persons. You can also search by address – Who all lived at a
Summer Camp in Vištytis, Lithuania 2019
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,
Hermann Lapidas alias Hosias Rischmann
He was born in 1848 in Vilkaviškis as Hosias Rischmann and had received his education as a young man in a yeshiva in Vilnius and at Salanter in Kaunas. Since 1895 he was in charge of the congregation in Seckenburg.