Diana Reiter Before and After the Holocaust: Historical Retrospective and Present Days

The family identity of the Reiters and their escape from the city of Drohobych are highlighted. The Lviv period in the life of student Diana Reiter – one of the first young Jewish women to take advantage of access to the higher studies of exact sciences at the Lviv Polytechnic University – has been carefully studied. The article also traces the career experience of this female architect in the 1920s and 30s, and her participation in the Jewish and architectural societies of Lviv and Kraków. The last minutes of her life in the ghetto are reflected on, as is the importance of historical memory.