Pioneering rabbi evicted from historic Krakow building rendered ownerless by the Holocaust

When Rabbi Tanya Segal landed an apartment at 12 Jozefa Street in Krakow a decade ago, she was thrilled.

Segal knew that the building had appeared in the movie “Schindler’s List,” that it had once housed a rabbi and a Jewish house of study, and that the Jewish family that owned it in the 1940s was murdered in the Holocaust. She set out to create a pulsing heart of Jewish life where it had been extinguished.

“It was an open house,” said Segal, a Moscow native who, as the founder of the Beit Krakow congregation, is the first woman to work full time as a rabbi in Poland. Sometimes she hosted services, seders and Shabbat meals from her apartment.

“Everybody knew where I lived, where you can come, where you can ask to meet,” she said.

Then, last month, Segal was forced to move out, under p