Exhibition Joseph Klarwein
For the first time, a section of the work of this modernist architect, who is relatively little known today, is being shown in a special exhibition at the New Synagogue Museum.
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Farewell to Nechama Drober
We say goodbye to Nechama Drober. She was an important voice for the Jews in Königsberg.
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.
Everyday history of Jews in Allenstein
At the lecture on November 24 in Olsztyn, Ruth Leiserowitz presented some new findings and discoveries about the Jewish history of the city to an
Cemetery in Johannisburg / Pisz marked
A ceremony was held to present the official marking of the Jewish cemetery of Johannisburg in Masuria, that was established in the 19th century.
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.
Heiny Ellert’s Testimony – Heydekrug
We are sad to have just heard about Hanoch (Heiny) Ellert’s passing.
He has reported about the fate of Jews from Heydekrug and Žemaičių Naumiestis in a video.
Looking for a Photographer
We are looking for a photographer from Eydtkuhnen in New York, Else Newman née Kamnitzer 1912-1999
Obituary of Michael Wieck
Michael Wieck had already published his memoirs of his time in Königsberg under Nazi rule and Soviet occupation in the 1980s, before the topic of
A man from Koenigsberg at the Nuremberg Trial
As a postscript to the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the Nuremberg trial, Peter Less should be mentioned here. Born in Koenigsberg, who fled