Juden in Ostpreussen, Verein zur Geschichte und Kultur e.V.

Museum
New Synagogue
Kaliningrad

Opening hours:

Sun – Thu: 10 am – 6 pm
Fri: 10 am – 2 pm
Saturday closed

Admission:

500 ₽ (Rubel)/ reduced 400 ₽

Adress:

236006 Kaliningrad,
ul. Oktyabrskaya 1a

Opening hours:

Sun – Thu: 10 am – 6 pm
Fri: 10 am – 2 pm
Saturday closed

Admission:

500 ₽ (Rubel)/ reduced 400 ₽

Adress:

236006 Kaliningrad,
ul. Oktyabrskaya 1a

Stories

Rabbi Moses Nadel

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. But then he had a work accident…

20. August 2023

Leere Halle Neuer Hauptbahnhof Königsberg

Museum

Farewell to Königsberg

A new temporary exhibition deals with the escape and emigration of Jews from East Prussia. The exhibition, which will open in May 2023 at the Jewish Museum in Kaliningrad, will travel to other cities after the summer season.

18. April 2023

Events

Blogger at the opening of the exhibition

Instagram blogger Kristina Ilyina in the series Livelyconversation produced a post with the curator of the exhibition for her followers in the Kaliningrad region

26. November 2022

Through Koenigsberg
with Jewish Eyes

Teacher 1939

What happened in important places?

Koenigsberg was a center of rich
cultural and commercial Life

Since 1935 a Jewish School
was active in
the Synagogue

The new
Synagogue
1896

Since 1935 a Jewish School
was active in
the Synagogue

The Synagogue was home for religion,
intellect, arts and tradition

with the pogrom night in 1938
the Jewish cultural and intellectual
life was destroyed

Barracks for Jewish forced laborers
from Poland were built on
the territory of the synagogue

In 1942 the Königsberg Jews were deported

... and murdered

The synagogue was rebuilt by the
Kaliningrad Jewish Community and
inaugurated in 2018

exactly 80 years after its destruction

You see these and many other stories in the new core exhibition in the synagogue

A project of the Association “Jews in East Prussia” with the support of the Foundation of the Construction of the Synagogue in Kaliningrad, the synagogue congregation
and the funding from the German Foreign Office

Museum
New Synagogue
Kaliningrad

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