A young married couple in Tilsit
A young married couple in Tilsit before the turn of the century.
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20th March 2024
Allenstein - Olsztyn / Association News / Family Stories / Holocaust and Prosecution / Nikolaiken - Mikołajki / Poland / Preussisch Holland - Pasłek / Rastenburg - Kętrzyn
Call for material for a new exhibition
"Farewell to Warmia and Masuria" Following the great success of the special exhibition "Farewell to Königsberg", a second part of this project is to be created in early summer 2024 and will travel through places in Warmia and Masuria.
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17th December 2023
Everyday history of Jews in Allenstein
At the lecture on November 24 in Olsztyn, Ruth Leiserowitz presented some new findings and discoveries about the Jewish history of the city to an interested audience. We got to…
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27th November 2023
Rabbi Moses Nadel
Rabbi Moses Nadel was buried in Koenigsberg. We can give face and history to his name: Nadel was born ab. 1882 in Viešintos (Lithuania), was ordinated by the Vilna Beit Din and served as a shochet and mohel in Krekenava.
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15th August 2023
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