Nożyk Synagogue

This guide to Nożyk Synagogue in Warsaw opens with an unlikely detail: when German forces occupied Warsaw, they emptied this synagogue and turned it into a stable for cavalry horses. It traces the building back to haberdashery merchant Zalman Nożyk and his wife Ryfka, who built it in eighteen ninety-three, and follows what happened to Warsaw's grander synagogues once the ghetto was sealed nearby. This street fell just inside the ghetto's edge, and the synagogue became one of only three still permitted to hold services within its walls.