A Mikveh for Kaliningrad
There was great joy that, after more than 80 years, there was once again such a facility for Jewish life in the town.
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Update Palmnicken JAN 2024
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.
Rabbi Moses Nadel
Rabbi Moses Nadel was buried in Koenigsberg. We can give face and history to his name: Nadel was born ab. 1882 in Viešintos (Lithuania), was ordinated by the Vilna Beit Din and served as a shochet and mohel in Krekenava.
Farewell to Nechama Drober
Nechama Drober has passed away. She was an important voice because she witnessed the fate of the Jews of Königsberg,
Film Clips from the Jewish Museum
Three Short film clips from the Jewish Museum in Kaliningrad are presented here, they can be found on YouTube and Instagram.
Klein’s hanger from Braunsberg
In the local history museum of Braniewo there we found hangers with the advertising imprints of a fashion store of Jacob Klein, Walter’s father.
Museum Night 2023
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
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.
Sandelowsky empowered for Eretz Israel
Insight into a new exhibition – Who knows more people?
The landowner Walther Sandelowsky trained young people in agriculture since 1934 so that they could receive a certificate for immigration to Palestine.
Lecture in Lüneburg, Germany
From the Mission to Conceptualize a Museum. The Jewish History of Königsberg in Kaliningrad.
Lecture by Ruth and Michael Leiserowitz