 The Soviet authorities declined to recognize the few surviving German Jews in Königsberg as victims of the Nazis, and initially treated all German-speakers as enemies.Wieck's incarceration in a Soviet prison camp near Königsberg-Rothenstein, and the story of how he and his parents barely managed to eke out an existence thereafter in Kaliningrad – as the city was renamed on in July 1946 – occupy the second half of his book.In 1949, the Wiecks finally were allowed to go to the Soviet Zone of occupation in truncated and divided Germany.