Farewell to Nechama Drober
Nechama Drober has passed away. She was an important voice because she witnessed the fate of the Jews of Königsberg,
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11th August 2023
Klein’s hanger from Braunsberg
In the local history museum of Braniewo there we found hangers with the advertising imprints of a fashion store of Jacob Klein, Walter's father.
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28th May 2023
The suitcase is on the way
The suitcase is on the way ........... a suitcase packed with things that a child possessed when it set off alone without parents to a foreign country in the Kindertransport in the 1930s.
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19th May 2023
Family research / Family Stories / Holocaust and Prosecution / Jewish Museum Kaliningrad / Kaliningrad Region (Russia)
Sandelowsky empowered for Eretz Israel
Insight into a new exhibition - Who knows more people? The landowner Walther Sandelowsky trained young people in agriculture since 1934 so that they could receive a certificate for immigration to Palestine.
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9th May 2023
Association News / Family Stories / Jewish Museum Kaliningrad / Kaliningrad Region (Russia) / Koenigsberg - Kaliningrad / Tilsit - Sowetsk
Farewell to Koenigsberg
The first temporary exhibition since the opening of the Jewish Museum in the Kaliningrad Synagogue has arrived on site and was handed over.
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1st May 2023
Schmalleningken / Smalininkai
The town had almost an urban appearance because of the customs revenues and the lively trade with its hotels, inns and stores. The Memel River was the important transport and trade artery for timber and flax imports from the interior of the continent to the Baltic Sea (via the ports of Memel or Königsberg)
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7th May 2022
Association News / Family Stories / Holocaust and Prosecution / Jewish Museum Kaliningrad / Synagogue Koenigsberg
Museum Media Production
These days we are combining historical photos and interviews with media designers to create a collage that will tell visitors about the fates of boys and girls from the Jewish…
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27th December 2021
Museum Construction December
Israel - descendants of the great Königsberg banking family Marx lend an old family item to the exhibition. Leipzig - the first model of the small "show houses" for stories about Jews of the city of Königsberg is hanging.
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5th December 2021
Heiny Ellert’s Testimony – Heydekrug
We are sad to have just heard about Hanoch (Heiny) Ellert’s passing. He has reported about the fate of Jews from Heydekrug and Žemaičių Naumiestis in a video.
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14th October 2021
Memel Album (was) in Preparation
However, all over the world, there are Jewish families who connect their roots with today’s Klaipeda. They managed to flee Europe at the end of the 1930s. In their language, they also took with them memories of their old hometown. (....)
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7th July 2021