Diana Reiter
Diana Julia Reiter, also known as Diana Reiterówna, was a Polish-Jewish architect. A graduate of Lviv Polytechnic, she was one of the first female architects in Kraków. In 1943, she was killed at the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Early life and education
Born in Drohobycz in 1902, she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of Lviv Polytechnic in 1927. Between 1928 and 1931, she worked at the Directorate of Public Works of the Provincial Office in Kraków with two other architects: Zdzisław Kowalski and Adam Moscheni. From 1930 to 1931, she was a technical officer, giving opinions on the designs of newly built buildings in Krynica and dealing with appeals against decisions of the Kraków construction authorities. In 1928, the project she worked on with Kowalski and Moscheni was ranked third in the competition for the building of the Jagiellonian Library. At the request of the provincial conservator of monuments, she dealt with the restoration of the royal castle in Niepołomice. Due to the region's dwindling economic situation, however, she was dismissed at the end of 1931.A year later, she began working at the office of Kazimierz Kulczyński, making architectural drawings until 1934. During this period, she was a member of the Union of Architects of the Kraków Province, renamed the Association of Architects of the Republic of Poland and the Union of Jewish Engineers. Two buildings designed by her are extant: at 28 Beliny-Prażmowskiego Avenue and 16 Pawlikowskiego Street —a tenement house constructed for Józef and Eleonora Elsner.