Kurortny Prospekt (Resort Avenue)

13 points1 km1 hour

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Susanin Team

Things to do

📜 Learn the city's history
🏛️🕰️ Compare the eras

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Jewish Guesthouse in Zelenogradsk

Point on route “Kurortny Prospekt (Resort Avenue)”

Point 4

Jewish Guesthouse

🏟️ Architectural landmark • 📜 Historic site

Historical Background

Next to Bast's apartment building, the Zamory family opened a Jewish guesthouse. Louis Zamory owned property in Königsberg and later founded a guesthouse in Cranz. His wife was Martha Jacobson, born in Cranz in 1852. She died in 1930 at the age of 78 and was buried in the local cemetery. A directory of Cranz establishments notes that the guesthouse stood 150 meters (about 500 ft) from the seashore. It had 30 bedrooms, one bathroom, 10 rooms with their own running water, and central heating.

Architecture

The building looks strict and understated, and its special touch is the use of colored glazed brick in the decoration. Bright yellow brick frames every window of the former guesthouse, and on the veranda a geometric pattern of yellow and white tiles catches the eye. The same pattern was on the ground floor of the veranda. The veranda itself was the guesthouse's main entrance: a round platform framed by wrought-iron railings, with the space glassed in.

The Fate of the Zamory Family

Louis and Martha had six children, but three of them died in infancy. Their heirs were their son Gerhard and two daughters, Erna and Erika. In the years before the war, Erna and Erika Zamory ran the family guesthouse. Nothing is known about their personal lives, but they were probably unmarried. In 1942, like many other Jews, they were deported to the Maly Trostenets concentration camp in Belarus, where they died that same year. Their older brother Gerhard Zamory also ended up in a concentration camp. He was lucky to survive, even though he was sent to the Auschwitz death camp. After the Red Army liberated the camp, Gerhard and his wife moved to the Netherlands, where he died in 1963. After the war the building housed the district Communist Party committee and a library. Today it is Kindergarten No. 4, at 4 Lenina Street.