Farewell to Koenigsberg
The first temporary exhibition since the opening of the Jewish Museum in the Kaliningrad Synagogue has arrived on site and was handed over.
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Farewell to Königsberg
A new temporary exhibition deals with the escape and emigration of Jews from East Prussia. The exhibition, which will open in May 2023 at the Jewish Museum in Kaliningrad, will travel to other cities after the summer season.
The museum online and on site
SEP 2022 – The museum is in operation The Jewish Museum in the Kaliningrad Synagogue started its operation on September 18, 2022. The first visitors
80 YEARS DEPORTATION
80 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.
Museum Construction February 22
The exhibition walls have been covered with the large print, inside the many varied displays get light and sound ….
Museum Media Production
These days we are combining historical photos and interviews with media designers to create a collage that will tell visitors about the fates of boys
Museum Construction December
Israel – descendants of the great Königsberg banking family Marx lend an old family item to the exhibition. Leipzig – the first model of the small “show houses” for stories about Jews of the city of Königsberg is hanging.
Preview Museum Synagogue Kaliningrad
What happened at the site of the synagogue? The exhibits in the museum tell about it.
East Prussian Heritage
Ostpreußische Erbschaft – a new article in the German newspaper Jüdische Allgemeine about the present museum project in Kaliningrad.
History – rewritten in the Kaliningrad Synagogue
Prof. Ruth Leiserowitz will talk Nov 7th in Olsztyn (Poland) about the history and the revival of Jewish life in Kaliningrad in her lecture entitled “Synagogue in Kaliningrad – a history written anew”.