Smalininkai Synagogue (Schmalleningken)
This place has some peculiarities for East Prussia and for the Jews*in East Prussia: There was a very high Jewish percentage of the total population here. It is the first place in East Prussia where a Jew, Pincas Isakowitz, received the right to build a house with an inn in 1708. The synagogue was built on the main street even before churches were built in the village.
Schmalleningken, in Lithuanian Smalininkai, was located on the very old southeastern border of East Prussia with Lithuania and from 1795 the Russian Empire.
Walter Süskind
Walter Süskind was a German-Dutch margarine trader who saved the lives of around 1000 Jewish children and adults during the Nazi era. Although his work is comparable to that of Oskar Schindler, his merits and he as a person are largely unknown to most people in Germany. A major factor for this is probably that Walter Süskind, unlike Oskar Schindler, was himself Jewish and his entire family was killed during the Shoah and so only friends and acquaintances could tell posterity about his story.
Jewish cemetery Dzierzgoń (Christburg)
The Jewish cemetery in Dzierzgon (German: Christburg) is located about 1.7 km southwest of the city center, at the intersection of Słoneczna Street with the dirt road, which turns at a right angle about opposite house number 3. After about 170 meters on the left you will find the breakthrough in the cemetery wall between the trees.
Tahara House Allenstein (Olsztyn)
Allenstein was the capital of a government district in East Prussia and belonged to the German Reich until 1945. Since the beginning of the 19th century there was a Jewish community here. The building for purification (Hebrew tahara), i.e. washing of corpses and for mourning ceremonies at the Jewish Cemetery was built from 1911 to 1913 according to the plans of the Allenstein-born architect Erich Mendelsohn. After the Second World War, the building served the city of Olsztyn as an archive building for a long time.
Cigar wholesaler - Leopold Hirschfeld & Co
Jewish cemetery Mikołajki (Nikolaiken)
The cemetery served the Jewish community of the East Prussian village of Nikolajken. The region belonged to the German Reich until 1945. Mixed inscriptions, in Hebrew and German, are most common. The Hebrew version was often engraved on the front of the gravestone, while the German version is on the back, or the Hebrew version is on the upper part and the German version is on the lower part of the matzeva (gravestones). The cemetery must have been devastated both before and after 1945, but it is still one of the best preserved Jewish cemeteries in the Masuria.
Rosenberg synagogue
The village of Rosenberg (now Susz) belonged to the German Reich in West Prussia and at times in East Prussia until 1945. In the November pogrom night of 1938 most of the synagogues were destroyed. This preserved synagogue building is one of the few exceptions - it resembles the synagogue in Mrągowo (Sensburg) with its unplastered brick, exterior decoration and square floor plan. The museum of local history displays a model of the old town from the 1930s. The museum is open on the first Sunday of the month and by appointment by telephone.
Cigarette and tobacco factory - Abeles
Bed feather factory - Billigheimer & Einstein
In the address book of the city of Munich 1893 the following entries can be found: Part 1 - Alphabet. List of residents - Billigheimer & Cie, bed feather business en gros, factory and warehouse, Nockherstr.2 and 3. Billigheimer Julius ( Billigheimer & Cie ) merchant, Thierschstr.31. - Einstein Adolf (Billigheimer & Cie) merchant, Buttermelcherstr.15.In the trade and business - address book with indication of the specialities for München and its nearest environment 1893 - Beds and bed feathers - Billigheimer & Cie Nockherstr. 2. and 3.