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.
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.
82 years ago, a train of Jews from Königsberg left for Minsk, where they were all shot on the spot.
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.
We say goodbye to Nechama Drober. She was an important voice for the Jews in Königsberg.
Read here about various news related to the commemoration of the largest massacre on the territory of the German Reich, today on the territory of the Kaliningrad region.
Nechama Drober has passed away. She was an important voice because she witnessed the fate of the Jews of Königsberg,
Three Short film clips from the Jewish Museum in Kaliningrad are presented here, they can be found on YouTube and Instagram.
Fans, curious first-time visitors and tourists came. Some even said that this was their first time entering a synagogue after a very long period for the family.
The suitcase is on the way ........... a suitcase packed with things that a child possessed when it set off alone without parents to a foreign country in the Kindertransport in the 1930s.