Synagogue of Gerrer Rebbe (Góra Kalwaria)
The synagogue on Pijarska Street 10/12 in Góra Kalwaria ( Yiddish Ger ), a Polish city in the Masovian Voivodeship , located in the backyard, served as the Beys Medresh (study and prayer room) for the Rebbe of the Hasidic court of Ger and his Trailer, the largest Hasidic court in Poland before the Second World War , which had its center in the eponymous city from around 1860 to 1939 with the residence of the Rebbe. The house was added to the former home of the Rebbe and his family in 1903. Across the street at number 5 is the former local synagogue for the general Jewish community.
During the German occupation the building was used for the detention of Polish prisoners of war, as a hospital, as a granary and as a new building for the local Polish court. The Germans also shot Jews in front of this building complex. The Gerrer Rebbe Avraham Mordechai Alter managed to flee to Palestine in 1940, where he was able to rebuild the movement. After the war the building was used as a shop and residential building. In 2000 it became the property of the Warsaw Jewish community, and the Rebbe's house continues to serve as a residential and commercial building.
The brick building, supported by eight iron columns with arched windows, is in poor condition. In the attic there is an oven that used to be used for baking matzos .
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- ↑ Ger Hasidic Dynasty , article in the YIVO Encyclopedia .
- ↑ Yizkor book, S. 280th
Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 58.4 ″ N , 21 ° 13 ′ 1.2 ″ E