We can head for the Grodzka Gate now along a path running across what used to be the town common land. The course of the path reflects what used to be Krawiecka Street in the Podzamcze district.This area was regarded as the poorest and most squalid part of the city in the interwar period. The building at 41 Krawiecka Street, Zalman Krasucki’s former cigar and cigarette factory, used to house living quarters, but also a soup kitchen for the poor, a day-care centre for children and a hakhsharah, a Zionist centre preparing youth for emigration to Palestine.One of the oldest Lublin synagogues, founded by Saul ben Judah Katzenellenbogen (c. 1541-1617), was located at 12 Podzamcze Street, at the foot of the castle. According to legend, Katzenellenbogen, also known as Saul Wahl (German for “choice, election”), was elected to be King of Poland for one day.The monastery by the Renaissance Church of St. Wojciech (Adalbert) was called the “Jewish monastery”, for it used to house a Jewish old people’s home in the 19th century.