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.
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 interested audience. We got to…
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 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.
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.
We are looking for a photographer from Eydtkuhnen in New York, Else Newman née Kamnitzer 1912-1999
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 Königsberg became en vogue in…
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 to Switzerland in 1938 at…
Unfortunately we had to carry a member of our association to the grave. We have created a page in German and English on which we and others tell about him.…
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…