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"Klaipėda 1945-1965...", Publishing House Libra Memelensis - 2010


The English Church had survived Memel 's destruction at the World War II to a certain degree. This allowed to take place Catholic services here since 19451). But in the mid-1950s, one found the area already leveled2).
This view across the 'Winterhafen' shows the tower of the Church in the 'Holzstrasse', as well the building of the 'Wohlfahrtsanstalt' at the left edge of the photograph.

1) Vygantas Vareikis, Annaberg Annalen 1995
2) Memeler Dampfboot - 5.7.1956

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