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Factory of Białystok Association of Manufacture
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] HistoryThe factory was founded by Germans in 1895 in what was then the Grodno Governorate of the Russian Empire. At that time, Germans made up many of the industrialists operating in neighboring Congress Poland.[3] The Becker factory produced plush.[2] .jpg) By the start of World War I, it was one of the largest factories in Białystok and employed hundreds of people.[4] 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."[5] In 2008, the structure became a shopping gallery.[4] DescriptionThe site features a board house in the Neo-Renaissance style. See alsoReferences
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