logo

Personalities

  • Our activities
    • Kaliningrad – A museum in the making
    • Press Comments
    • Brochure: Walk Jewish Koenigsberg
    • Koenigsberg, Tilsit, Memel and more
    • Timeline
  • Who We Are
    • About us
    • Donation
    • Feedback Messages
    • Acknowledgements
    • Data Protection Declaration
    • Contact
  • People in East Prussia
    • Stories about People
    • Prominents A – Z
    • Genealogy – get hints
    • Book on the Subject
    • Sources about People
  • Places in East Prussia
    • Synagogue Koenigsberg
    • Places in East Prussia A-Z
    • Places out of East Prussia
    • Synagogues in East Prussia A-Z
    • Maps
  • English
    • Deutsch
Menu
  • Our activities
    • Kaliningrad – A museum in the making
    • Press Comments
    • Brochure: Walk Jewish Koenigsberg
    • Koenigsberg, Tilsit, Memel and more
    • Timeline
  • Who We Are
    • About us
    • Donation
    • Feedback Messages
    • Acknowledgements
    • Data Protection Declaration
    • Contact
  • People in East Prussia
    • Stories about People
    • Prominents A – Z
    • Genealogy – get hints
    • Book on the Subject
    • Sources about People
  • Places in East Prussia
    • Synagogue Koenigsberg
    • Places in East Prussia A-Z
    • Places out of East Prussia
    • Synagogues in East Prussia A-Z
    • Maps
  • English
    • Deutsch
  • Our activities
    • Kaliningrad – A museum in the making
    • Press Comments
    • Brochure: Walk Jewish Koenigsberg
    • Koenigsberg, Tilsit, Memel and more
    • Timeline
  • Who We Are
    • About us
    • Donation
    • Feedback Messages
    • Acknowledgements
    • Data Protection Declaration
    • Contact
  • People in East Prussia
    • Stories about People
    • Prominents A – Z
    • Genealogy – get hints
    • Book on the Subject
    • Sources about People
  • Places in East Prussia
    • Synagogue Koenigsberg
    • Places in East Prussia A-Z
    • Places out of East Prussia
    • Synagogues in East Prussia A-Z
    • Maps
  • English
    • Deutsch
Menu
  • Our activities
    • Kaliningrad – A museum in the making
    • Press Comments
    • Brochure: Walk Jewish Koenigsberg
    • Koenigsberg, Tilsit, Memel and more
    • Timeline
  • Who We Are
    • About us
    • Donation
    • Feedback Messages
    • Acknowledgements
    • Data Protection Declaration
    • Contact
  • People in East Prussia
    • Stories about People
    • Prominents A – Z
    • Genealogy – get hints
    • Book on the Subject
    • Sources about People
  • Places in East Prussia
    • Synagogue Koenigsberg
    • Places in East Prussia A-Z
    • Places out of East Prussia
    • Synagogues in East Prussia A-Z
    • Maps
  • English
    • Deutsch
logo

Personalities

Personalities

Read more about the article Leon
Association News / Events / Family Stories / Memel - Klaipeda / Personalities

Leon

Leon A STORY IN DEVELOPMENT Call for Photos from Memel

Comments Off on Leon
18th October 2025
Read more about the article Excursion: East Prussia’s border regions with Lithuania Part 3
Association News / Heydekrug - Silute (eng) / Personalities

Excursion: East Prussia’s border regions with Lithuania Part 3

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.

Comments Off on Excursion: East Prussia’s border regions with Lithuania Part 3
19th August 2025
Read more about the article Excursion: East Prussia’s border regions with Lithuania Part 2
Association News / Heydekrug - Silute (eng) / Holocaust and Prosecution / Memel - Klaipeda / Personalities

Excursion: East Prussia’s border regions with Lithuania Part 2

We met Eugenius Bunka, the son of the last Jew of Plunge.

Comments Off on Excursion: East Prussia’s border regions with Lithuania Part 2
16th August 2025
Read more about the article Excursion: East Prussia’s border regions with Lithuania Part 1
Irma, Ralph from Vistitis visiting Feliks Pozemskis in Klaipeda
Association News / Heydekrug - Silute (eng) / Memel - Klaipeda / Personalities

Excursion: East Prussia’s border regions with Lithuania Part 1

Visit of the Jewish community in Klaipeda that provides religious services and commemorates the Jewish history and culture of the port city.

Comments Off on Excursion: East Prussia’s border regions with Lithuania Part 1
4th August 2025
Read more about the article Stolperstein for Ernst Lipstein from Königsberg
Events / Family Stories / Holocaust and Prosecution / Koenigsberg - Kaliningrad / Personalities

Stolperstein for Ernst Lipstein from Königsberg

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.

Comments Off on Stolperstein for Ernst Lipstein from Königsberg
20th April 2025
Read more about the article Jewish photographers of Klaipeda / Memel
Family Stories / Holocaust and Prosecution / Lithuania / Memel - Klaipeda / Personalities

Jewish photographers of Klaipeda / Memel

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.

Comments Off on Jewish photographers of Klaipeda / Memel
16th March 2025
Read more about the article Jewish Births in Königsberg in 1859
Family research / Koenigsberg - Kaliningrad / Personalities

Jewish Births in Königsberg in 1859

Before October 1, 1874, Jews in Germany had to report their births, marriages and deaths to the competent court, where these were registered. Unlike many records of Jewish communities that…

Comments Off on Jewish Births in Königsberg in 1859
4th March 2025
Read more about the article From the pictures by Max Sandelowsky
Association News / Family research / Family Stories / Holocaust and Prosecution / Kaliningrad Region (Russia) / Lithuania / Personalities

From the pictures by Max Sandelowsky

Here we see a group of trainees on an excursion to Schwarzort (Curonian Spit) in 1935.

Comments Off on From the pictures by Max Sandelowsky
3rd September 2024
Read more about the article Exhibition Joseph Klarwein
Association News / Events / Kaliningrad Region (Russia) / Personalities

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.

Comments Off on Exhibition Joseph Klarwein
3rd April 2024
Read more about the article Farewell to Nechama Drober
Family Stories / Jewish Museum Kaliningrad / Personalities

Farewell to Nechama Drober

We say goodbye to Nechama Drober. She was an important voice for the Jews in Königsberg.

Comments Off on Farewell to Nechama Drober
2nd April 2024
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Go to the next page
Copyright - WordPress Theme by OceanWP