Capital of Kaliningrad County (Oblast) since 1945.
Former capital of East Prussia (Ostpreussen, Germany) till 1945
As soon as the imposing figure of R. Isser […] with his flowing snow-white beard appeared on the streets of Königsberg, people knew right away that a circumcision was taking place that day.
To mark the occasion of the opening, the Königsberg Jewish Community Newsletter published a drawing by architect Kurt Frick, who had designed the building.
...... The painting of the then-young family was housed at the Jewish Museum Berlin and was photographed in 1934. Today, the painting is considered lost ......
In Kaliningrad, today's Jewish community continues the traditions of the former German-Jewish community of Königsberg. At April 15 2026, Ruth and Michael Leiserowitz gave a lecture in Stuttgart; see clip online in German language.
Lecture in Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Modernizers in an East Prussian village. Jewish shopkeepers from 1860 onwards by Ruth Leiserowitz (University of Klaipėda) and Jews in East Prussia November 24,…
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…
82 years ago, a train of Jews from Königsberg left for Minsk, where they were all shot on the spot.
This excursion was organized by the Jewish Museum in the New Synagogue of Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) .....