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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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. (….)
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
Online Catalog is ready
The catalog of the exhibition “Jews in Königsberg at the turn of the century” is now online! Link to the English edition >> Link to
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
Jewish School in Königsberg
Königsberg / Kaliningrad. For an exhibition in the rebuilt synagogue on the topic “Jewish School in Königsberg” we are looking for pictures, documents and stories
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
Hanukkah hit “Ner Li” composed by a Königsberger!
The Hanukkah hit “Ner Li” was composed by a man from Königsberg!
A man from Koenigsberg at the Nuremberg Trial
As a postscript to the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the Nuremberg trial, Peter Less should be mentioned here. Born in Koenigsberg, who fled