Jewish residents were first mentioned in Klaipėda/Memel in 1567, although as with the historically similar city of Gdańsk/Danzig they never made the same impact as they did in the rest of the region. By the time Hitler seized the city in March 1939, some 8,000 Jews had already fled, leaving a small population behind of whom most were murdered during the impending Holocaust. Little of the city’s Jewish past remains in the city, the main exceptions being listed below. The former Jewish hospital, constructed in 1870 and now serving as a psychiatric department, is the large yellow building on the hill close to the Old Jewish Cemetery at Galinio Pylimo 3. An estimated 200 or so Jews live in Klaipėda today, many of them from families that moved to Lithuania from other Soviet republics after the war.