The Museum of the History of Lithuania Minor has announced an opening reception for the exhibition LEON on September 4 2026 in Klaipeda
We want to recreate a mural of Ms. Ella Puhn at the exact spot in the Old Town of Klaipeda.
The Klaipėda Jewish community invited to the event during which the names of the 1,225 people, buried in the cemetery, were presented. Opening of a publick exhibition.
An article about Darkehmen is now available on our website.
To mark the occasion of the opening, the Königsberg Jewish Community Newsletter published a drawing by architect Kurt Frick, who had designed the building.
What happened to the Jews in Memel, and what were the consequences for the city following the annexation in 1939?
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.