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

Museum
New Synagogue
Kaliningrad

Opening hours:

Sun – Thu: 11am – 5pm
Fri: 11am-5pm
Fri: 11am-3pm
Sat closed

Admission:

500 ₽ (Rubel)/ reduced 400 ₽

Adress:

236006 Kaliningrad,
ul. Oktyabrskaya 1a

Opening hours:

Sun – Thu: 11am – 5pm
Fri: 11am – 5pm Summer
Fri: 11am – 3pm Winter
Sat closed

Admission:

500 ₽ (Rubel)/ reduced 400 ₽

Adress:

236006 Kaliningrad,
ul. Oktyabrskaya 1a

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

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.

6. October 2022

Children

FIRST VISITORS ARE THE CHILDREN

The Jewish Museum in the Kaliningrad Synagogue started its operation on September 18, 2022. The first visitors were the children of the Jewish Congregation.

19. September 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

Die Synagoge war Heimat für Religion,
Intellekt, Kunst und 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

... 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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Admission:

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Opening hours:

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