I realise that the ownership of the plot on which the second part of the house was built in 1909 is of little significance to the history of the Frischman family. Still, it is part of the history of the house in Dynów. I shall therefore give a very brief account here, based on the documents in my possession.

On 20 July 1899, a certain Chaja Kalter, née Haüben, assigned a promissory note for six hundred crowns to her son, Majer Kalter. From 1 August 1899, the note carried interest at ten per cent. It was also registered as a charge against half of the property entered under whl 593 — whl meaning “mortgage register number”, or “Wohnhausblatt” — that is, the plot under discussion. Chaja must have taken out this loan earlier, but I do not know when.

At that time, the plot belonged to three members of the Kalter family:

Chaja held two-fourths — that is how it was entered in the land register: not one-half, but two-fourths — while Majer and Leiba Izaak each held one-fourth.

On 28 July 1904, Leiba Izaak, who used the name Izaak, borrowed twelve hundred crowns from the Credit Society at seven and a half per cent interest and registered the debt against his one-fourth share.

On 3 May 1905, Chaja, who could not write and signed with a little circle rather than a cross because she was Jewish, took out another loan from the Credit Society. This time it was for five hundred and fifty crowns at seven and a half per cent interest, registered against her two-fourths share.

Chaja died shortly afterwards, also in 1905. Her half of the property passed by inheritance to Majer Kalter and Leiba Izaak Kalter. Each brother thus received half of their mother’s half.

On 12 June 1906, Majer Kalter sold both the share inherited from his mother and his own one-fourth share to his brother, Leiba Izaak, for five thousand crowns.

The contract was drawn up by Karol Prochaska, a notary in Rzeszów. The witnesses were Mr Józef Jaśkiewicz, a pharmacist in Rzeszów, and Samuel Eimer, a restaurateur in Rzeszów.

Leiba Izaak Kalter thus became the sole owner of the entire property. On 8 August 1906, he sold it to our Grandpa for 10,600 crowns. Payment was made as follows: Grandpa assumed the old debts incurred by Chaja with the Credit Society, which by then amounted to 1,589 crowns and sixteen hellers, and paid the remaining 9,010 crowns and eighty-four hellers in cash.

The plots purchased from Kalter lay to the south of the building. To the north, two plots belonged to Chana Mindla Fränkel, née Weinberger. Grandpa concluded two purchase agreements with her: one on 14 August 1925 for plot No. 471, and another on 18 May 1926 for plot No. 852.

Chana Mindla could not write and placed only little circles on the contracts. Witnesses appeared to confirm the authenticity of those marks. Although Chana was illiterate, she knew how to count. Both properties were burdened with so many debts that Grandpa paid her only 780 złoty in cash for the first plot and three thousand złoty for the second. Naturally, however, he also had to settle her debts.

Description and Valuation of the House

Certified Copy

No. III 54/5. Imperial and Royal District Court in Dynów. 20 November 1905.

Record drawn up at the property in Dynów.

Present: Aleksander Golan, Imperial and Royal court clerk, acting as the Court’s representative; Ludwik Cieszyński; Jan Wyszatycki; and Franciszek Frischman, pharmacist and property owner in Dynów.

Subject: Voluntary valuation of the property entered under mortgage register No. 20 in the land register of the municipality of Dynów, pursuant to the instruction dated 20 November 1905, No. III 54/5.

Proceedings commenced after one o’clock in the afternoon. The valuers were reminded of the oath they had taken, informed of the cadastral, taxation and land-register particulars, and proceeded with their work (?).

I. Composition of the Property

The property entered under mortgage register No. 20 in the land register of the municipality of Dynów comprises the following:

1. Building plot No. 245, area not stated.
2. Building plot No. 246/2, area not stated. The dwelling house stands on these two plots.
3. Building plot No. 244/1, converted into a garden.
4. Plot No. 222, a garden covering 129 square fathoms.
5. Land plot No. 221/8, a garden covering sixty-two square fathoms.

The annual land tax and rental tax amount to 280 crowns and eighty-one hellers, in addition to provincial and municipal taxes.

II. Description

On building plots Nos. 245 and 246/2 stands a masonry house built two years ago and roofed with tiles. The house has a ground floor and one upper storey… its residential frontage faces west onto the market square, immediately beside the main road leading to Przemyśl and Sanok, and thus lies on the principal thoroughfare.

The house is entered either through a separate adjoining passage on the northern side or through the front doors from the market square, which lead chiefly into the pharmacy premises.

The pharmacy is entered through double doors, glazed in their upper halves and fitted with a roller shutter. These open into a room with a floor of coloured artificial stone and two windows. From there, double doors lead north into a smaller room with two windows and a wooden floor. …The rooms have windows only on the western side and share a large tiled stove situated in the dividing wall.

From the latter room, a single door… leads east into a small vestibule with a stone floor. From this vestibule, a single door opens into the passage already mentioned, while double doors straight ahead lead into an eastern room… with a stone floor and tiled stove. From there, double doors lead south into a second room with two windows, the same type of floor and a stove. A single door then leads into the kitchen, which has a wooden floor, one window, a bread oven and an English-style cooking range.

From the kitchen, a single door leads into a hall with a stone floor and one window. Finally, from there, a single door leads south into the pantry, another such door opens into the courtyard, and one step farther south is the privy.

From the northern room of the pharmacy premises described above, a single, right-opening door, glazed in its upper half, leads into a very small room. Iron stairs descend from there to the laboratory, which has a cement floor and two small basement windows in the western front wall, fitted with wire mesh. Here are situated… and the laboratory furnace.

From the laboratory, a single door leads east into a small vestibule or passage. From this passage, another single door straight ahead to the east leads into the pharmacy cellar, which has one window. Returning to the passage and continuing south, then descending three steps, one reaches another passage leading west to a second, spacious western cellar, or to cellar No. 3 farther east. The second cellar lies beneath the pharmacy premises, and cellar No. 3 beneath the second ground-floor room described above.

The house is entered through the passage already mentioned by large double doors… Above them, a fairly large window is set in the wall to admit light into the passage. The passage has a chequered artificial-stone floor and leads either into the courtyard or up a wooden staircase with a turn to the first floor. From there, further stairs ascend eastwards to a small separate room with one window, a small iron stove and a single door with glazing in its upper third.

From the first-floor passage, double doors, glazed in their upper halves, lead west into a small vestibule. From there, double doors straight ahead open into a spacious room with three windows and a tiled stove. Double doors then lead south into the last room on the western frontage, with two windows and front… double doors, glazed in their upper halves, opening onto a magnificent stone balcony on the western façade.

From this room, double doors lead west into a room with two windows and a tiled stove. From there, continuing east, one enters the kitchen, which has one window, a bread oven and an English-style cooking range.

Farther east is a hall containing a pantry… corresponding to the pantry on the ground floor, followed by the first-floor gallery leading to the privy.

From both the hall outside the ground-floor kitchen and the corresponding hall on the first floor, stairs lead to the divided attic, intended for two families. It has a brick floor and six windows in the western fire wall.

Outside, to the east, approximately eight paces from the kitchen, there is a very deep cement-lined well with a… wheel pump. About ten paces north of the well stand further outbuildings: a barn, a wooden stable and a carriage shed. Their western wall directly adjoins the neighbouring masonry dwelling, and they are roofed with wooden shingles.

Just beyond the well, approximately eight paces farther east from the outbuildings, lies a fruit and vegetable garden containing an apiary of a dozen or so hives. The outbuildings are well maintained. In front of them is a moderately sized courtyard used exclusively for farm and household work.

III. Valuation

The valuation is based on customary local selling prices. For the buildings, account is taken of their location, the quality of the materials and their state of repair. For the land, account is taken of soil quality, type of cultivation and location.

1–2. Building plots Nos. 245 and 246/2, on which the dwelling house and outbuildings now stand: four thousand crowns.

• Building plot No. 244/1, now converted into a garden but still suitable for building: eight hundred crowns.
• Building plot No. 222, a garden covering 129 square fathoms, at eight crowns per square fathom: 1,032 crowns.
• Land plot No. 221/8, a garden covering sixty-two square fathoms, at eight crowns per square fathom: 496 crowns.

Total value of the land: 6,328 crowns.

In addition, the dwelling house is valued at forty thousand crowns, and the outbuildings at fifteen hundred crowns.

Total value of the buildings: 41,500 crowns.

In words: forty-one thousand five hundred crowns.

Ludwik Cieszyński, Jan Wyszatycki, Franciszek Frischman.

Proceedings concluded at 7:45 in the evening, with… each claiming six crowns for their labour and loss of time, and requesting approval of that amount.

Since the above proceedings lasted… hours without interruption, I therefore claim a fee of five crowns and request approval of that amount.

Aleksander Gałan
Imperial and Royal Court Clerk

Dynów, 4 December 1905.