Association News / Family Stories / Heydekrug - Silute (eng) / Holocaust and Prosecution / Kaliningrad Region (Russia) / Lithuania / Memel - Klaipeda / Poland / Tilsit - Sowetsk

Download the e-book “Sabbatleuchter …”

Good news for anyone interested in the history of East Prussia: you can now download the book, how Jews lived in East Prussia in the 19th century and up until World War II, free of charge.

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21st July 2025

Family Stories / Kaliningrad Region (Russia) / Poland / Tilsit - Sowetsk

A young married couple in Tilsit

A young married couple in Tilsit before the turn of the century.

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20th March 2024

Association News / Family Stories / Jewish Museum Kaliningrad / Kaliningrad Region (Russia) / Koenigsberg - Kaliningrad / Tilsit - Sowetsk

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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1st May 2023

Family Stories / Personalities / Tilsit - Sowetsk

The Laaser family in Tilsit

The Laaser family in Tilsit owned several sawmills. Eugen Laaser was the president of the Tilsit Chamber of Commerce and had an art nouveau villa built, which still stands in…

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9th February 2020

Personalities / Tilsit - Sowetsk

A Rabbi in Tilsit now on Wikipedia

Our efforts are not only to commemorate the fled and murdered Jews from East Prussia, but also to bring back the people erased from history into the history books. Individual…

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28th May 2019