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,
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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.
Jewish Cemeteries in Polish East Prussia
Increased cooperation with local initiatives will lead to more and more research results from Polish being made available in English and German to descendants living all over the world.
Kaliningrad: News from the Old Cemetery
12 January 2020: The so-called Old Jewish Cemetery in Königsberg continues to send signals to us. With every visit we find new gravestones, this time a couple known to us was present – because they had bought entrance tickets for the opening of the synagogue in 1896.
Search for a Jewish dentist
Search for a Jewish dentist in Königsberg 1943
“Admitted to treatment of Jewish dental patients”
Nordenburg Interwar Period
Nordenburg, today Krylowo in the Kaliningrad region (Russian Federation), the town is located directly north of the border to Poland. There were 13 Jewish families living in Nordenburg
Translated: The history of the Jews in Rastenburg
In October 2019, the Blusztyn Association updated its publication on Jewish life in the city of Rastenburg and published it in English. The Association Jews
Rastenburg, thank’s for the gift of association Blusztyn
Paul Hecht was cantor in Rastenburg, later in Berlin. He survived the Theresienstadt camp, worked in Berlin after the war (photo) and emigrated to America.
Hidden history books
Yael Naaman from Jerusalem has told the story of her family by means of an extensive correspondence and compiled as a Hebrew book. Translated the title
Jews in Sensburg
Sensburg was a German town in East Prussia, today it is the Polish town Mrągowo. Committed Polish citizens of this city take care of the