Capital of Kaliningrad County (Oblast) since 1945.
Former capital of East Prussia (Ostpreussen, Germany) till 1945
Albert Loose (born 1873 in Königsberg, murdered 1943 in Sobibor) was merchant in Königsberg. He emigrated 1933, lived in Spain and later in the Netherlands from where he was deported…
Pic: Courtesy of the Leo Beck Institute, New York Eduard Birnbaum (born 1855 in Krakow, died 1920 in Königsberg) was cantor, composer, choral conductor and one of the first explorers…
Aron Liebeck is our main narrator in the exhibition "Jews in Koenigsberg" of 2017. In his memoirs he describes things that others did not consider important. We added him now…
The famous former Königsberger (1928-2021) received a greeting at his residence from the opening of the synagogue in Kaliningrad. The author of the book "Zeugnis vom Untergang Königsbergs (Witness to…
Königsberg after the November pogrom (part 6) Lore Lessheim, who today lives in Perth/Australia under the name Zusman still keeps the saving telegram announcing the entry permit to Australia. This…
Königsberg after the November pogrom (part 4) Norbert Seelig, his sisters and his parents apparently had a very adventurous escape route from Europe. They left the continent for America…
Königsberg after the November pogrom (part 2) This picture owned by Nechama Drober shows the Jewish schoolchildren at a Hanukkah celebration in 1937. Fred (then still Siegfried) Flatow emigrated with…
After the November pogrom, a feverish search for emigration opportunities began. Some families managed to emigrate, others failed for various reasons. In the following we will tell you some episodes…
Moshe L. Meron (formerly Max Ludwig Segall) former Deputy President of the Knesset(Parliament of Israel) and Deputy Mayor of the City of Ramat Gan in Israel It is with great …
The new series about the pogrom night 2018 on Facebook, what happened 80 years ago.....