Struck by lightning
Memo August 1851 “… the Jewish herring merchant Jochim Goersch from Wystiten was struck dead by lightning in the village of Karklienen on August 25,
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From the pictures by Max Sandelowsky
Here we see a group of trainees on an excursion to Schwarzort (Curonian Spit) in 1935.
Jewish retirement home in Vilkaviskis
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.
Deportation train from Königsberg
82 years ago, a train of Jews from Königsberg left for Minsk, where they were all shot on the spot.
Darkehmen – Search for traces
Excursion to possible traces of Jews in Darkehmen.
Kaliningrad Jewish Museum trains city guides
This excursion was organized by the Jewish Museum in the New Synagogue of Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) …..
Rabbinical Congress
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.
Inauguration of the mikvah
A mikvah in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) with sections for women, men and objects.
Exhibition Joseph Klarwein
For the first time, a section of the work of this modernist architect, who is relatively little known today, is being shown in a special exhibition at the New Synagogue Museum.
Farewell to Nechama Drober
We say goodbye to Nechama Drober. She was an important voice for the Jews in Königsberg.