The factory building of the Białystok Association of Manufacture is a structure in Białystok, Poland. It was owned by Becker & Co., a German company. The factory contributed to the historical textile industry in Białystok, and it is on the register of monuments in Poland.[1][2]
History
The factory was founded by Germans in 1895 in what was then Russian Poland. At that time, Germans made up many of the industrialists operating in neighboring Congress Poland. The factory produced plush.[2]
Board house from 1905
By the start of World War I, it was one of the largest factories in Białystok and employed hundreds of people.[3]
Historian Feliks Tych edited the testimony of a man who, during World War II, was "arrested" and "sent off to Białystok [and] placed in the factory of the Becker company, where there were already thousands of Poles, Ukrainians, and Belorussians."[4]
In 2008, the structure became a shopping gallery.[3]
Description
The site features a board house in the Neo-Renaissance style.
^ abDorot Jewish Division, The New York Public Library. (1949 - 1950). Bialystok (1949)
^ abKlopotowski, M., & Zagroba, M. (2017). Post-industrial Objects and Buildings in the Structure of the Contemporary City. IOP Conference Series. Earth and Environmental Science, 95(5), 52019-.
^I Saw the Angel of Death: Experiences of Polish Jews Deported to the USSR During World War II. (2022). United Kingdom: Hoover Institution Press.
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