The Tilsit church school’s first language was German. By 1918, the effects of World War I were taking their toll, and English would become the primary language in schools.

Irene R. Bramblet. Bonita Springs - Irene Bramblet passed away peacefully on December 10th, 2021. She was born on January 18th 1935 in Tilsit Germany to the late Eric and Helen Dickomeit.

Irene R. Bramblet. Bontia Springs - Irene Bramblet passed away peacefully on December 10th, 2021. She was born on January 18th 1935 in Tilsit Germany to the late Eric and Helen Dickomeit.

Right behind there is Deutsche Strasse (literally: German Street) -- now called Gagarin Street -- where Czar Alexander stayed in 1807 when he visited Tilsit, as it was known then, to sign a peace ...

On June 27, 1891 the church incorporated as the German Evangelical St. James Church of Tilsit Missouri. Later that same year the church purchased a church bell.

Wilhelm Gerke, 57, a former Gestapo inspector in Tilsit, was sentenced today to five years’ imprisonment at hard labor for complicity in the murder of 1,109 Jews and other victims in the German ...