During the seventeen years of his residence in Lwów, Józef Koffler changed flats many times. All of his flats were located in the southern part of the city centre, between the Ossoliński National Institute, the PTM Conservatoire and the University Library.
He lived at 4 Ossolińskich St. from ca 1925, moved a few houses up the street to 7 Heleny Dąbczańskiej (Cytadelna) St. in 1929, then soon to 29 Maurycego Mochnackiego St., and finally to the nearby address of 5 Piotra Chmielowskiego in 1936.
A large corner house, built in the historicist style in 1880, directly next to the Ossoliński National Institute. Well-known tenants included the actress Wanda Siemaszkowa. Józef Koffler lived there from ca 1925 till the summer of 1929. To get to the PTM Conservatoire, he needed to walk less than 300 metres down on the Chorążczyzny Street.
The tenement house was located above the Ossoliński National Institute (two addresses from 4 Ossolińskich Street). It was built in 1911 in the early modernist style according to the design of Adam Opolski, who was among its residents. Other tenants included Jan Kazimierz University professors Władysław Tarnawski (English philology) and Jerzy Kuryłowicz (French philology) as well as Polish Army major Wit Sulimirski.
Koffler lived there (door 11) in the autumn of 1929, when (on 15 October) he married Róża née Roth, who also probably moved into that flat after marriage. He announced this relocation through a personal notice published in Chwila on September 20, 1929.
This modest and rather small, one-storeyed tenement was built at the turn of the nineteenth century, facing the family house of Prof. Juliusz Makarewicz, rector of Jan Kazimierz University, lecturer at the Faculty of Law, and a senator in interwar Poland. Many of the tenants were lower-ranking officials. Józef Koffler and his wife moved in not later than in late December 1929 and lived there for more than six years, till the spring of 1936. They were the only tenants under this address to have a private phone (from 1930). This flat was a bit further (nearly a kilometre’s walk) away from the PTM Conservatoire.
Situated near the University Library and St Nicholas (University) Church, the house was built in 1898 after a design by Polish architect Julian Cybulski. It was owned by Nuchim Günzberg, later (in 1936) – by Dr Albert Silber. This was a much more elegant address than 29 Mochnackiego St. Koffler lived at this address (in the ground floor flat no. 2) for more than five years, from the spring of 1936 until December 1941 (or later) with his wife Róża and son Alban (born on 3 August 1936).
Other tenants included (in various periods) gynaecologist Władysław Bylicki, legal adviser Roman Lewicki, teachers and officials. The only tenants to have a private phone in 1938 were Koffler and Dora Goldstein. Henryk Vogelfänger had a barrister’s chambers at no. 6 (he was also a radio announcer on Merry Lwów Radio Wave, known as ‘Tońko’). Zygmunt Halber, editor in chief of Express Wieczorny daily, lived at 11 Chmielowskiego St., and musicologist Adolf Chybiński – 150 metres further, at 20 Kalecza St. The distance from Koffler’s last flat in Lwów to the PTM Conservatoire was 500 metres.
