Museum
New Synagogue
Kaliningrad

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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
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.

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

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Opening

Curator tour on October 9, 2022

The public of the city, journalists and tour guides of Kaliningrad were given a detailed insight into the exhibition. Prof Dr. Ruth Leiserowitz, as curator, introduced the museum’s exhibition.

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

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The new
Synagogue
1896

Since 1935 a Jewish School
was active in
the Synagogue

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

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

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... 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