Painting missing
...... 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 ......
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15th March 2026
Gargždai – Museum Project
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.
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20th January 2026
Modernizers in an East Prussian village
Lecture in Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Modernizers in an East Prussian village. Jewish shopkeepers from 1860 onwards by Ruth Leiserowitz (University of Klaipėda) and Jews in East Prussia November 24,…
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20th November 2025
Association News / Family Stories / Heydekrug - Silute (eng) / Holocaust and Prosecution / Kaliningrad Region (Russia) / Lithuania / Memel - Klaipeda / Poland / Tilsit - Sowetsk
Download the e-book “Sabbatleuchter …”
Good news for anyone interested in the history of East Prussia: you can now download the book, how Jews lived in East Prussia in the 19th century and up until World War II, free of charge.
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21st July 2025
Stolperstein for Ernst Lipstein from Königsberg
There are always new stories about Jewish families from Königsberg – now on the occasion of the laying of a Stolperstein for Ernst Lipstein from Königsberg.
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20th April 2025
The Rosenthals from Lyck / Ełk
The tenement house in Lyck with its outbuilding, warehouse, garages, sheds and stables was used by Isidore Rosenthal's haulage company "Rosenthal & Sohn", which had been founded by his father.
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27th March 2025
Jewish photographers of Klaipeda / Memel
Some remarkes about Jewish photographers by us, contribution to Camera Obscura, the cultural history and provenance research project of Pre-Second World War Lithuanian Jewish photographs.
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16th March 2025
Nathan Grumach – Son, Notary and Cantor in Barczewo/Wartenburg
Since he had a beautiful voice, he liked to help out in the synagogue and sing there for services when he came home for Shabbat.
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15th October 2024
Struck by lightning
Memo August 1851 “... the Jewish herring merchant Jochim Goersch from Wystiten was struck dead by lightning in the village of Karklienen on August 25, 1851. He was between 40…
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13th September 2024
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