{"id":12948,"date":"2026-06-09T13:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/the-last-rabbi-of-memel\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:41:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:41:36","slug":"the-last-rabbi-of-memel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/de\/the-last-rabbi-of-memel\/","title":{"rendered":"Der letzte Rabbiner von Memel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"892\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Schlesinger-post.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Schlesinger-post.jpg 892w, https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Schlesinger-post-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Schlesinger-post-768x404.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 892px) 100vw, 892px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Der letzte Rabbiner von Memel, Dr. Simon Schlesinger (1893-1959), kam 1932 aus K\u00f6ln in die Stadt. Er hatte viel Erfahrung in der Bildungsarbeit und gr\u00fcndete 1935 eine j\u00fcdische Schule in der Stadt. Im Fr\u00fchjahr 1939 fl\u00fcchtete er mit seiner Familie Paula und den Kindern Sarah Judith und Isaak zun\u00e4chst nach Kazlu Ruda (Litauen) und von dort aus im August 1939 \u00fcber Gdynia nach London. Im Fr\u00fchjahr 1940 setzte die Familie \u00fcber Marseille ihre Flucht nach Pal\u00e4stina fort. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Text: Prof. Dr. Ruth Leiserowitz, ruth@leiserowitz.de<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Weitere beeindruckende Bilder von Menschen der Stadt gibt es bald in der Ausstellung LEON<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"660\" src=\"https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ankuendigung-Balk-26-2-1024x660.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ankuendigung-Balk-26-2-1024x660.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ankuendigung-Balk-26-2-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ankuendigung-Balk-26-2-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ankuendigung-Balk-26-2-1536x990.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ankuendigung-Balk-26-2.jpg 1545w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Der letzte Rabbiner von Memel \/ Klaipeda vor dem Krieg war Dr. Simon Schlesinger (1893-1959). Er kam 1932 aus K\u00f6ln in die Stadt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372,136],"tags":[376,377],"class_list":["post-12948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memel-klaipeda-de-2","category-personlichkeiten","tag-klaipeda-de","tag-memel-de","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12954,"href":"https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12948\/revisions\/12954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewsineastprussia.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}