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Around the year 1740, the first Jews settled in the town. After the Prussian Edict, more and more Jews came to the town and district. The Braunsberg synagogue was opened on 7.11.1855 in the Fleischerstraße, in the Reichspogromnacht; it was levelled to the ground. Especially in the second half of the 19th century, there was an increased emigration from the town. By 1933 the number of Jewish inhabitants of Braunsberg had decreased to only 67. Today there are no traces of Jewish life in the town, except for a single gravestone of Natalie Hirschberg (1864-1910).
The group "Jewish families of Braunsberg" is a project of the association "Jews in East Prussia" [www.jewsineastprussa.de] , which wants to discover and preserve the memory of the Jews in this region, their activities, their history and culture.