Capital of Kaliningrad County (Oblast) since 1945.
Former capital of East Prussia (Ostpreussen, Germany) till 1945
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) .....
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.
A mikvah in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) with sections for women, men and objects.
We say goodbye to Nechama Drober. She was an important voice for the Jews in Königsberg.
There was great joy that, after more than 80 years, there was once again such a facility for Jewish life in the town.