The history of the house Lwowska 12

The tenement house at ul. Lwowska 12-14 is inextricably linked to the history of multicultural Nowy Sącz. At the beginning of the 20th century, the tenant of this building was the owner of a trade in various goods, Szymon Nussbaum and his family. The long-time owner of this house was the last tzaddik of Sądecczyzna, Arie Leib Halberstam. He did not live on Lwoska, but in the Jewish district. At the beginning of the 20th century, the confectioner Kalman Sieradzki moved here. He came to Nowy Sącz from Nowo-Radomsko, together with his wife Chana. A few years later, on the corner of Sobieskiego and Lwowska streets, Sieradzki built his own tenement house – he moved there and opened a shop. Unfortunately, during World War II, he was murdered by the Germans, together with his wife. The tragic fate of the Jewish nation was shared by other families living in this building: watchmaker Baruch Sancer, bookbinder Samuel Knöbel, the Bornfreunds, Franks, Korns, Pasternaks, Mandels, Sanderens, Sejfmans, Ungers and the family of the shopkeeper Witte Zimetbaum. The rabbinical candidate Efraim Halberstam, son of the owner Arie Leib, who lived here, was persecuted during the Hanukkah action, one of the first that the Germans targeted Jews. Together with other rabbis, he was forced to dance in the Market Square and perform other humiliating acts. It all happened during the Hanukkah holiday, which falls in December. In 1941, as part of the „rabbinical action”, Efraim Halberstam was taken to the KL Auschwitz camp, where the Germans murdered him.
The history of the building you are in reflects the history of the city of Nowy Sącz. Often sad and tragic.