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
Deportationszug nach Minsk
Museum

80 years deportation

80 years ago, the first deportation train, which brought Jews from Königsberg, Tilsit and Allenstein to their death in Minsk, headed for its terrible destination.

24. June 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

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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

About the museum

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

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