IV. Buildings Integral to the Former Life and/or Persecution of Jews in Altona. 9. Roughly Kirchenstraße (former No. 5 Grünestraße/No. 10 Gademannstraße) Waisenhaus 1840-1927 (Orphanage). Welfare Work, Day Nursery 1927-1942. Home for Old People and Nursing Home 1927(?)-1942. Destroyed in the War. Talmud Tora Armenschule 1840-1927 (Talmud Tora Charity School). In 1839 Isaak Hartwig von Essen donated the interest on a sum of money for a new school. On the 25th May 1840 the school moved from no. 1 Breite Straße into these new premises. The boys' classrooms were on the ground-floor and the girls' classrooms on the first floor. The orphanage was on the second floor. A plaque on the facade at the level of the first floor recalled its founder: Isaak Hartwig von Essen Israelitisches Waisenhaus (Israelite Orphanage) Isr. Mädchen und Knabenfreischule (Israelite Girls' and Boys' Charity School) Im Jahre 1840 <> The old-fashioned house was not built to house a school. The rooms were cramped and the playground was small. After the school moved to the new premises at no. 17 Palmaille in 1927 the ground-floor housed one of the two Altona Jewish day nurseries and the second floor the Jewish Welfare office. In 1936 the ground-floor and first floor of the building, that now belonged to the Israelite Women's Humanitarian Society (Israelitische Humanitäre Frauenverein), were converted and renovated. Following this, on the 1st April 1936, the other day nursery moved here from no. 58 Wohlersallee. The number of children had declined due to emigration and a fall in the birthrate. As a result of the deportations, at the end of July 1942, the building became an old people's and nursing home. At the same time the ownership was transferred to the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland. The building was destroyed in the Second World War. After the war Grünestraße disappeared in the reconstruction of Altona.