About The Center
Kluger House
Across from the Chevra Lomdei Mishnayot Synagogue stands the house of the last Jewish resident of Oswiecim, Szymon Kluger. After his death in 2000, his siblings, Moshe and Bronia, donated the home to the Auschwitz Jewish Center. The Kluger house originally belonged to Szymon’s grandfather, Bernard Teichman and his daughter, Frymet. They bought it in 1928. Bernard Teichman was in the dry-goods trade in Oswiecim. He also owned a second hand goods shop in Bytom. Szymon’s father, Symcha, was a religious teacher (melamed). Of the nine Kluger siblings, only three survived the Holocaust.