On 24 March 2019 the Jewish Community in Klaipeda (Lithuania, in German: Memel) is holding a conference to mark the 80th anniversary of the German invasion of Memelland. Our association…
Olsztyn in Poland, Allenstein was the centre of southern East Prussia. In this series we tell stories of Allenstein Jews with photos owned by their descendants. Paulina Mendelsohn (born 1882…
Avraham Lewin from the Kibbutz Lavi has told the story of his family in a Hebrew book. Translated the title is “Life Story” He was born in 1924 in Koenigsberg and…
In search of traces of the Königsberg library, the association "Jews in East Prussia" drove to Jerusalem and visited Dr. Irene Shirun-Grumach on 9 February 2019. Her father, Ernst Grumach,…
In preparation for a new exhibition project on the emigration of Jews from Königsberg, the Association Jews in East Prussia visited the former Königsberg resident Rachel Dror in Stuttgart in…
Albert Loose (born 1873 in Königsberg, murdered 1943 in Sobibor) was merchant in Königsberg. He emigrated 1933, lived in Spain and later in the Netherlands from where he was deported…
Aron Liebeck is our main narrator in the exhibition "Jews in Koenigsberg" of 2017. In his memoirs he describes things that others did not consider important. We added him now…
Königsberg after the November pogrom (part 6) Lore Lessheim, who today lives in Perth/Australia under the name Zusman still keeps the saving telegram announcing the entry permit to Australia. This…
Königsberg after the November pogrom (part 4) Norbert Seelig, his sisters and his parents apparently had a very adventurous escape route from Europe. They left the continent for America…
Königsberg after the November pogrom (part 2) This picture owned by Nechama Drober shows the Jewish schoolchildren at a Hanukkah celebration in 1937. Fred (then still Siegfried) Flatow emigrated with…