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.
Good news for anyone interested in the history of East Prussia: you can now download the book, how Jews lived in East Prussia in the 19th century and up until World War II, free of charge.
83 years ago, the first deportation train, which brought Jews from Königsberg, Tilsit and Allenstein to their death in Minsk, headed for its terrible destination. On the evening of June 24 1942 men, women and children had boarded the wagons.
The tenement house in Lyck with its outbuilding, warehouse, garages, sheds and stables was used by Isidore Rosenthal's haulage company "Rosenthal & Sohn", which had been founded by his father.
Participants from all over Russia gathered in Kaliningrad for a rabbinical congress and visited the the Jewish Museum on the History of the Jews in Königsberg.
We say goodbye to Nechama Drober. She was an important voice for the Jews in Königsberg.
In the local history museum of Braniewo there we found hangers with the advertising imprints of a fashion store of Jacob Klein, Walter's father.
Insight into a new exhibition - Who knows more people? The landowner Walther Sandelowsky trained young people in agriculture since 1934 so that they could receive a certificate for immigration to Palestine.
From the Mission to Conceptualize a Museum. The Jewish History of Königsberg in Kaliningrad. Lecture by Ruth and Michael Leiserowitz
The first temporary exhibition since the opening of the Jewish Museum in the Kaliningrad Synagogue has arrived on site and was handed over.