The Museum of the History of Lithuania Minor is presenting the exhibition LEON from September 4 to October 10, 2026 in Klaipeda
Mrs. Puhn has returned to Klaipėda! The mural has been installed at the spot in the Old Town of Klaipeda.
The Klaipėda Jewish community invited to the event during which the names of the 1,225 people, buried in the cemetery, were presented. Opening of a publick exhibition.
An article about Darkehmen is now available on our website.
As soon as the imposing figure of R. Isser […] with his flowing snow-white beard appeared on the streets of Königsberg, people knew right away that a circumcision was taking place that day.
Video 20 min about how the life of Jewish businesspeople and entrepreneurs in Memel after World War I, A lecture by Ruth Leiserowitz in 2023 at the History Institute of Klaipeda University.
Jewish families who had come from Memel and fled to Kaunas were also deported.
...... The painting of the then-young family was housed at the Jewish Museum Berlin and was photographed in 1934. Today, the painting is considered lost ......
60% of the population in the neighbouring town of Klaipeda/Memel was Jewish. Together with the Regional Museum of Gargzdai/Gorzd, we want to research and present this interesting history of the historic border town in Lithuania.
