In 1954, a radio jamming station was erected on the cemetery grounds. Most of the matzevot (tombstones) were destroyed during the installation of the antennas.
Video 20 min about how the life of Jewish businesspeople and entrepreneurs in Memel after World War I, A lecture by Ruth Leiserowitz in 2023 at the History Institute of Klaipeda University.
The last rabbi of Memel / Klaipeda before the war was Dr Simon Schlesinger (1893–1959), He arrived in the town from Cologne in 1932.
Visit of the Jewish community in Klaipeda that provides religious services and commemorates the Jewish history and culture of the port city.
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.