There were only 1,585 Jews in the city in May 1939 , after which emigration was prohibited . Prominent Königsberg Jews who committed suicide during World War II were the esteemed councilor Paul Stettiner , consul Felix Japha and his wife , and the doctor Lotte Gottschalk . Her uncle , politician Alfred Gottschalk , starved to death in 1942 . The leader of the Jewish community , Hugo Falkenheim , was smuggled to safety . Those who remained in 1942 were shipped to concentration camps , including Theresienstadt in occupied Czechoslovakia , Kaiserwald in occupied Latvia , and camps in Minsk in occupied Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic . The lawyer Max Lichtenstein died at Theresienstadt , while the councilor Marta Harpf died at Auschwitz . Only a small number of Königsberg 's Jews survived The Holocaust and World War II ; the number of victims is unknown . Many remaining German Jews left Königsberg , then Kaliningrad , in April 1948 . Today , a community of approximately 2000 Jews remains in the region , with the New Synagogue being rebuilt in the same location and as an exact replica of the building destroyed in 1938
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
History of the Jews in Königsberg