Tour of Siedlce
Following in the footsteps of teen Anna Kahan, let us go back to the years of the second decade ...Read more
1. The Municipal building
Our tour “In the Footsteps of Anna Kahan” begins from the place where the municipal building was located during her ...Read more
2. The Jewish Hospital
The need to found a hospital, which would provide medical care for the Jewish people, was agreed at a meeting ...Read more
3. The Prison
We go to Piłsudski Street. On our left, we pass the prison.
The year in which Anna began writing her diary, marked ...Read more
4. The House of Cukier
On Piłsudski Street, behind the prison building and Wałowa Street lived Anna Kahan’s tutor – Teresa Cukier.
The House of ...Read more
5. Warszawska Street
Warszawska Street is both the main and the oldest street in the city. In the first half of the 18th century, ...Read more
6. Kochanowski Street
We get to Kochanowski Street and turn left. In Anna Kahan’s time, Kochanowski Street was called Szpitalna Street. From this ...Read more
7. The Cathedral
Anna Kahan returned with her family from Pińsk to Siedlce by train. She wrote about it in her diary.
“We put our ...Read more
8. The Cinema Moderne
Anna went to the cinema, which was located opposite the cathedral, in a house of Piotrowski family, at the corner ...Read more
9. Jatkowa Street
Jatkowa Street is currently called Czerwony Krzyż Street. It was renamed around 1924.
We turn to Czerwony Krzyż Street and get to ...Read more
10. The Russian Gymnasium for Girls
As mentioned before, Anna completed primary school at the age of nine and was preparing to continue her ...Read more
11. The Primary School
To the west of the Ogiński Palace was the road connecting the park with manor gardens. Between 1900 and 1901, ...Read more
12. The School of Arts and Crafts
Let us start a short story about the School of Arts and Crafts with a digression. On ...Read more
13. The City Park
The city park which lies before us is called “Aleksandria” from the name of its founder the Duchess Aleksandra Ogińska.
The ...Read more
14. The Palace
In Anna Kahan’s time, the palace served as a Russian governor’s house and the seat of the Siedlce Gubernatorial Government.
After the ...Read more
15. The Gate
For almost two centuries, the bell tower was one of the main symbols of the city. In ...Read more
16. The Pedestrian Zone
Let us walk from the eastern border of the pedestrian zone. One of the first buildings that we pass is ...Read more
17. The Post Office
The Post Office in Siedlce, designed by architect Antonio Corazzi, was built between 1827 and 1828. The prominent element of ...Read more
18. The Pharmacy
At the time of the partitions of Poland, there were two pharmacies in Siedlce. The first one was located at 17 ...Read more
19. The Millinery
In her Diary, Anna writes a lot about her work, which she undertook at the age of ten. It is presumed ...Read more
20. The Synagogue
The synagogue is a symbol of the no longer existing Jewish community in Siedlce.
The first mention of the synagogue comes from ...Read more
21. The Old Town Hall
The most important building on the odd side of the former pedestrian zone “from the bell tower to the ...Read more
22. At the Photographer’s
In 1914, Anna with her sister Bracha had a photograph taken at the photographer’s shop of S. L. Rozowski. ...Read more
23. The Orthodox Church
On Sunday, October 3, 1915, Anna Kahan described in the diary her return from Pińsk. When the train was pulling ...Read more
24. Jadwiga Barszczewska School
Anna’s very religious father was opposed to her attendance at the Russian Secondary School for Girls, because its pupils had ...Read more
25. Stodolna Street
On Wednesday, May 3, 1916, Anna Kahan was with her closest friend Itka on Stodolna Street. On the 125th anniversary of ...Read more
26. The Railway Station
In Anna Kahan’s time, one could get to the railway station by taking a horse-drawn carriage from the west. This ...Read more