Allenstein - Olsztyn / Association News / Family Stories / Holocaust and Prosecution / Nikolaiken - Mikołajki / Poland / Preussisch Holland - Pasłek / Rastenburg - Kętrzyn

Call for material for a new exhibition

"Farewell to Warmia and Masuria" Following the great success of the special exhibition "Farewell to Königsberg", a second part of this project is to be created in early summer 2024 and will travel through places in Warmia and Masuria.

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17th December 2023

Allenstein - Olsztyn / Events / Family Stories / Personalities

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 interested audience. We got to…

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27th November 2023

Allenstein - Olsztyn / Association News / Events / Jewish Museum Kaliningrad / News Synagogue Kaliningrad

History – rewritten in the Kaliningrad Synagogue

Prof. Ruth Leiserowitz will talk Nov 7th in Olsztyn (Poland) about the history and the revival of Jewish life in Kaliningrad in her lecture entitled "Synagogue in Kaliningrad - a history written anew".

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4th November 2021

Allenstein - Olsztyn / Association News / Events / Holocaust and Prosecution / Koenigsberg - Kaliningrad / Personalities

Michael Wieck in Allenstein / Olstyn

Michael Wieck passed away at Feb 27 2021 - may his memory be blessed. A moving moment for all visitors to the Mendelsohn House was the final message when Michael…

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15th April 2019

Allenstein - Olsztyn / Association News / Events / Family Stories / Holocaust and Prosecution / Koenigsberg - Kaliningrad

Meeting Michael Wieck in Warsaw

Michael Wieck passed away at February 27 2021, may his memory be blessed. Invitation to a meeting with Michael Wieck in Warsaw on April 16 2019. He was born in…

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8th April 2019

Allenstein - Olsztyn / Family Stories

Stories from Allenstein part 1

Olsztyn in Poland, Allenstein was the centre of southern East Prussia. In this series we tell stories of Allenstein Jews with photos owned by their descendants. Paulina Mendelsohn (born 1882…

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15th March 2019

Visiting Michael Wieck at his home in Stuttgart

Allenstein - Olsztyn / Association News / Events / Holocaust and Prosecution / Personalities / Synagogue Koenigsberg

Visiting Michael Wieck, the Witness to the fall of Königsberg

The famous former Königsberger (1928-2021) received a greeting at his residence from the opening of the synagogue in Kaliningrad. The author of the book "Zeugnis vom Untergang Königsbergs (Witness to…

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16th December 2018