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 to Switzerland in 1938 at…
We like to share this initiatives on the history of the Jews in Zalewo and have therefore translated this issue from Polish into English.
Search for a Jewish dentist in Königsberg 1943 "Admitted to treatment of Jewish dental patients"
Happy 90 th Birthday! Leonore Echt was born in 1929 in Insterburg (today Chernjachowsk, Russian Federation Kaliningrad Oblast). In Johannesburg (South Africa) we celebrated the birthday .......
In October 2019, the Blusztyn Association updated its publication on Jewish life in the city of Rastenburg and published it in English. The Association Jews in East Prussia is grateful…
.... . This is the "Driesen Foundation". Christians and Jews lived here together, as everywhere in Königsberg. In 1936 the magistrate decided that it would no longer be reasonable for Christians to live under one roof with Jews. ......
Some days after German invasion to Lithuania, on Sunday, June 29, 1941 men from the German SS- unit Heydekrug (East Prussia) arrived in Laukuva (Lithuania). The rounded up all Jewish…
In June 1942, when the first deportation from Königsberg to Minsk took place, it was about as hot as in those June days. Anyway, eyewitnesses report that when they said…
What other holiday walks could Jews take when "Für Arier" was written in the parks and on the park benches? Daniel Edel opened his photo album for us. The photo…
The two commandant office buildings are still standing April 2019 - On our excursion we came to Lauknen, which later became Hohenbruch and today is called Gromovo in Russian. It…