As soon as the imposing figure of R. Isser […] with his flowing snow-white beard appeared on the streets of Königsberg, people knew right away that a circumcision was taking place that day.
Jewish families who had come from Memel and fled to Kaunas were also deported.
The last rabbi of Memel / Klaipeda before the war was Dr Simon Schlesinger (1893–1959), He arrived in the town from Cologne in 1932.
...... The painting of the then-young family was housed at the Jewish Museum Berlin and was photographed in 1934. Today, the painting is considered lost ......
We saw Shtetl on the border and places of the former German Jewish Kehila: The todays Silute County south of Klaipeda includes the former German Heydekrug area.
We met Eugenius Bunka, the son of the last Jew of Plunge.
Visit of the Jewish community in Klaipeda that provides religious services and commemorates the Jewish history and culture of the port city.
There are always new stories about Jewish families from Königsberg – now on the occasion of the laying of a Stolperstein for Ernst Lipstein from Königsberg.
Some remarkes about Jewish photographers by us, contribution to Camera Obscura, the cultural history and provenance research project of Pre-Second World War Lithuanian Jewish photographs.