Tahara House (Allenstein)
Coordinates: 53 ° 46 ′ 32.3 " N , 20 ° 28 ′ 6.6" E
The Tahara House in Olsztyn (Polish: Olsztyn ), today's capital of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , was built between 1911 and 1913 by the Olsztyn Jewish community. The former Tahara house is located on Seestrasse (today ul. Zyndrama z Maszkowic). The Jewish cemetery was leveled in the 1960s.
history
The building was constructed from 1911 to 1913 according to plans by the Allenstein-born architect Erich Mendelsohn . The building served as an archive building for the city of Olsztyn after the Second World War . In 2008, the restoration of the building began, which was to be used by the Borussia Foundation as an “archive of living remembrance” . The opening took place on March 21, 2013, exactly on the architect's 126th birthday.
See also
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online edition ).
Web links
- Jews in Allenstein (accessed December 29, 2014)