Online Exhibition
We invite you to take the opportunity to visit the exhibition of 2017! Learn more about the little known aspects of life in Königsberg at
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First pictures of the Mikveh
In January 2020 we were able to take a look at the shell of the mikveh, which is located in the basement of the recently inaugurated synagogue in Kaliningrad. Now the city of Kaliningrad has got a centre for a Jewish identity as a community again. Let’s hope to be able to further complete the dream that has recently come true.
Kaliningrad: News from the Old Cemetery
12 January 2020: The so-called Old Jewish Cemetery in Königsberg continues to send signals to us. With every visit we find new gravestones, this time a couple known to us was present – because they had bought entrance tickets for the opening of the synagogue in 1896.
Walk through Jewish Koenigsberg
We invite you to discover the Jewish Königsberg in Kaliningrad. The first brochure describes the residential area where most of the Jews in the city
German radio: A landmark of Jewish life
Original sounds (in German) of the descendants of the Jews from Königsberg and community members can be heard at the opening. And it is about the developments and plans around this outstanding building in the first year of its existence.
Jews on the Battlefield of the Great War
Remembering the Jewish Soldiers of all Armies in WW1. Events at 06th October 2019 in Kaliningrad (Russia, former Koenigsberg, East Prussia, Germany)
Jewish places in Königsberg 1938
What other holiday walks could Jews take when “Für Arier” was written in the parks and on the park benches? Daniel Edel opened his photo
Geni: 900 Profiles of Jews in Koenigsberg reached
The project “Jewish families from Königsberg, today Kaliningrad2, which we started in the genealogist network Geni.com, has now recorded over 900 profiles! 29 people are
Part 4 Searching for traces
After the end of the war, the stolen libraries reached Offenbach, the Offenbach Archival Depot (photo). This was the central collection point for the literature
Part 3 Searching for traces
In search of traces of the Königsberg library, the association “Jews in East Prussia” drove to Jerusalem and visited Dr. Irene Shirun-Grumach on 9 February