Nadine Ann Memel, 74, passed away at her home in Morgantown, WV, on October 22, 2025 after a well-fought and often arduous 7 year battle with multiple myeloma. Born on April 15, 1951, in Parkersburg, ...

THE little town of Memel lies in the southeast corner of the Baltic at the northern outlet of the large, shallow Kurisches Haff. An ever-shifting sandbank, a little more than a mile in width, ...

THERE is a strange contrast between the history of this sleepy Baltic port in the centuries prior to the Paris Peace Conference and its prominence in the subsequent fifteen years. Until 1917, Memel ...

Refugees from Memelland today refuted an official statement that no Jews were left in the territory just taken over by Germany, declaring that some 300 still remained in the smaller towns of the ...

Jewish property valued at $17,000,000 has fallen into Nazi hands in Memelland, it was revealed today along with an official announcement that not a single Jew remained in the territory taken from ...

KAUNAS, Lithuania, March 22, 1939 (UP) - Lithuania surrendered Memel to Nazi Germany today under an implied ultimatum which said that if the annexation was effected peacefully Germany would ...

Führer Hitler took Memel last week with enough flourish to make it seem valuable. It is not. The district is a homespun, colorless countryside 1,099 square miles in area bounded by East Prussia, the ...