Home for the Elderly and Disabled of the Mosaic Faith them. Bekermans.
Facility name: Home for the Elderly and Disabled of the Mosaic Faith, named after Bekermans
Other, common/colloquial names of the facility: Jewish Home/Home for the Elderly and Orphans/ Niepubliczna Szkoła Podstawowa im. J. Słowacki
Facility address: ul. Warszawska 3
Time of construction of the facility: 1913.
Object designer: unknown
The client of the facility: Samuel Rufin Bekerman
Description: It is a five-story building, made of red brick and not plastered. It has a characteristic elevation maintained in the neo-Gothic style, fashionable at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The front elevation of the building has 13 axes, divided symmetrically by several avant-corps. From the rear side, the building has a symmetrically placed extension (partly modern - harmonized with the original building). The roof of the building is multi-pitched, covered with metal tiles. Today, a gymnasium is added to the original building.
Originally, the building at the top of the front facade had a four-sided tower. From the side of the garden there was a porch crowned with two turrets, on top of which the Stars of David were placed. These elements gave the building an unambiguously Jewish character. They were removed during World War II.
History of the facility: The Home for the Elderly and Disabled of the Mosaic Faith was built in the Obozisko, a peripheral district of Radom, as a result of the initiative of Samuel and Sana Bekerman, who in 1893 made a bequest for its creation, allocating 600 rubles a year for this purpose from their inheritance. The intention to establish a care facility was realized by Samuel Rufin Bekerman, who in 1912 created the Bekerman Foundation, which had the amount of PLN 30,000. rubles. Already on March 16, 1913, an impressive building was put into use, originally intended only for the elderly of the Jewish faith. Shortly after its construction, during World War I, a Jewish infectious diseases hospital with about 30 beds was located in the building. The building returned to its original function shortly after the end of the war, and from August 1920 it also became a children's home for Jewish orphans, who lived here as many as 70. The younger pupils were provided with school education, the older ones - with education and gaining professional practice in school workshops. The facility was maintained by an institution called Dom Sierot Żydowskich, which in exchange for hospitality undertook to take care of elderly residents. In 1927, the Jewish Religious Community in Radom took over the management of the Bekerman Foundation and its assets.
During World War II (since 1940), the Germans decided to place a Jewish infectious disease hospital in the building again. It existed until August 1942 (until the liquidation of the ghetto). All the residents of the house were then murdered. After the end of the war, the devastated building of the poorhouse was thoroughly renovated with the funds of the Social Fund for the Reconstruction of the Capital. Initially, in 1950, it was planned to locate a nursing school here, but eventually, in 1954, the building was handed over to the needs of education and Public Primary School No. 27 was located here. They created the "Sami dla Siebie" association and organized a non-public primary school for them. Juliusz Słowacki. In 2016, on the sold part of the plot of the former Home for the Elderly and Disabled of the Mosaic Faith, the office building "Temida" was built.