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.
We met Eugenius Bunka, the son of the last Jew of Plunge.
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.
83 years ago, the first deportation train, which brought Jews from Königsberg, Tilsit and Allenstein to their death in Minsk, headed for its terrible destination. On the evening of June 24 1942 men, women and children had boarded the wagons.
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.
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.
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.
Here we see a group of trainees on an excursion to Schwarzort (Curonian Spit) in 1935.
82 years ago, a train of Jews from Königsberg left for Minsk, where they were all shot on the spot.
A new feature is the additional Facebook page in Polish under the name "Żydzi w Prusach Wschodnich" and with Lissi's profile picture.