Catalogue #

Exposure date

Title / Place depicted

Notes

5

1960

Syrenka

Unknown / Artur Barwacz

Syrenka Restaurant. Mr Izrael Goldberg lived in the building at the centre.

13

c. 1960

Corner of Krakowska Street and the western side of the Market Square

Unknown / Regional History Museum

The buildings just opposite Kaprys supermarket are no longer there. Before demolition in the early 1980s they provided space for a restaurant and a bakery among others.

19

1960

Corner of Kosciuszki and Rzeszowska Streets

Unknown / Regional History Museum

The building currently not existent. Just opposite the today’s Bank Spoldzielczy (The Berger House). According to Mr J. Kubistal it was a cake shop.

20

1945

Town Hall

Unknown / Regional History Museum

Back view. Currently it holds a children health centre.

21

1917-18

Northern side of the Market Square

B. Fett / Regional History Museum

Copy of the coloured postcard published at the end of the First World War by B. Fett.

27

1967-68

Krakowska Street

Kazimierz Prajsner / Regional History Museum

Right side. Onwards to Tarnow. Before modernization.

28

1964

Rynek

D. Zawadzki / D. Zawadzki

A postcard. Market Square. View of the northern side.

32

1986

Krotka Street

K. Prajsner / Regional History Museum

The prewar Jewish houses demolished in the late 1980s.

34

Unknown

In front of the New Synagogue

K. Prajsner / Regional History Museum

View of the square in front of the New Synagogue (Boznica) at Krakowska Street. After WW2 Debica residents would use it for fairs.

35

Unknown

Rzeszowska Street

K. Prajsner / Regional History Museum

Another view of the building. See caption for #19.

39

Unknown

Kosciuszki Street

K. Prajsner / Regional History Museum

View of the postwar Manifestu Lipcowego housing estate. playground. During WW2 it was the main area of the Debica Ghetto.

41

Unknown

Krotka Street

K. Prajsner / Regional History Museum

See caption for #32.

42

Unknown

Rzeszowska Street

K. Prajsner / Regional History Museum

Buildings next to what today is Kaprys supermarket. Typical Jewish workshops of the 1930s.

43

Unknown

Corner of Rzeszowska and the southern side of the Market Square

K. Prajsner / Regional History Museum

Probably early 1960s. It looked the same in the 1930s.

44

Unknown

Krakowska Street

K. Prajsner / Regional History Museum

On the right you can see old Jewish shops in the place where currently Kaprys supermarket is.

45

Unknown

Krakowska Street

K. Prajsner / Regional History Museum

After the Jewish shops had been demolished giving space for Kaprys. On the right you can see the eastern wall of the New Synagogue (Boznica).

51

Unknown

Market Square seen from the northern side

K. Prajsner / Regional History Museum

1960s but a prewar Jewish “balagule” might drive a cart like this as well.

53

Unknown

Krakowska Street

K. Prajsner / Regional History Museum

The shops described in caption for #45.

56

Unknown

Rzeszowska Street crossing with Kosciuszki Street

K. Prajsner / Regional History Museum

The same view as on the unnumbered prewar postcard titled “Debica” below.

61

Unknown

Krakowska Street

K. Prajsner / Regional History Museum

The New Synagogue (Boznica) already made a department store.

71

Unknown

Square before the New Synagogue

K. Prajsner / Regional History Museum

1960s. Gentile stallholders in front of Boznica.

77

1945

Market Square

Jozef Stec / Ryszard Kucab

The most impressive of Debica market square buildings – Zniwo (Harvest) department store. Right to it Hinda Hauser’s printing house. In the foreground a temporary cemetery for Soviet soldiers.

86

1984

Krotka Street

A. Barwacz / A. Barwacz

The houses non existent today but typical of the prewar Jewish Debica. Note the feather bed airing.

145

Unknown

Krakowska Street before Boznica

K. Prajsner / Regional History Museum

Another view of the New Synagogue area.

154

3 Aug 1937

Debica. Stare Miasto.

M. Rosenberg / S. Bigus

A postcard. A perfect view of the Old Town westbound. Note the left side: Jewish inns and shops well depicted with their “shtetl” melancholy. The turret is the old Town Hall’s.

168

1916

Debica. Ringplatz, nördlicher Teil.

B. Fett / S. Bigus

A postcard. Demolished northern side of the Market Square. Note the Jewish children.

170

1938

Ogolny widok Debicy.

Unknown / S. Bigus

A postcard. “General view of Debica” it says while it depicts the western side of the Market Square just before the WW2. Note the New Synagogue on the far left. The smokestack at the centre is of Natan Gruenspan’s plant.

179

1945-50

Market Square

J. Stec / R. Kucab

An unidentified group talking. It is easy to imagine them as Jewish survivors.

210

Unknown

Debica. Rynek.

H. Hauser / S. Bigus

Probably 1914-1916. A postcard with a perfect perspective of the eastern side of the Market Square.

217

Unknown

Debica. Kaweczyn

M. Rosenberg / S. Bigus

A postcard. Today’s Krakowska Street eastbound. Note the shops on the left.

218

Unknown

Pozdrowienie z Debicy (Hotel Polski).

Unknown / A. Klamut

Greetings from Debica – a postcard. Probably 1914. Eastern side of the Market Square. The building was later bought by Hausers and used as a printing house. Still there today.

219

Unknown

Debica. Ogolny widok.

Unknown / A. Klamut

A postcard. Same as #170.

220

Unknown

Debica. Rynek. Ringplatz.

H. Hauser / A. Klamut

A postcard. Same view as #210 but larger.

221

Unknown

Stare Miasto Debica.

Unknown / A. Klamut

A postcard. Old Town. Circa 1918. Exit of today’s Wielopolska Street which before WW2 and earlier was popularly called “Jewish Street”. At the centre in the background there looms a part of the Old Synagogue’s roof. The Synagogue was demolished after WW2. Jewish children in the foreground.