Former Northern Part of East Prussia (Ostpreussen), Germany, till 1945
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.
Before October 1, 1874, Jews in Germany had to report their births, marriages and deaths to the competent court, where these were registered. Unlike many records of Jewish communities that…
Memo August 1851 “... the Jewish herring merchant Jochim Goersch from Wystiten was struck dead by lightning in the village of Karklienen on August 25, 1851. He was between 40…
Here we see a group of trainees on an excursion to Schwarzort (Curonian Spit) in 1935.
New text finds on the opening of the old people's home, now a hospital in Vistitis (now Lithuania), which shows the connection to the nearby town of Eydtkuhnen in Eastern Prussia.
82 years ago, a train of Jews from Königsberg left for Minsk, where they were all shot on the spot.
Excursion to possible traces of Jews in Darkehmen.
This excursion was organized by the Jewish Museum in the New Synagogue of Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) .....
Participants from all over Russia gathered in Kaliningrad for a rabbinical congress and visited the the Jewish Museum on the History of the Jews in Königsberg.