Frid Palace (in Hungarian – Fried Palota) is private house of the city, which was built in 1910. It was named in honor of its owner – Jewish entrepreneur Ignaz Fried. There were 18 small shops on the ground floor and 24 apartments on the first and second floors. Jewish families were renting 22 apartments, one flat was for governor (he wasn’t a Jew), and one flat was rented by not Jewish family. This house did not bring happiness to F. Ignaz. Just at the time when the house was being erected and the following years, the relatives of the rich man began to die one by one. Until the Second World War it was the largest private house in Uzhgorod and later belonged to the Jewish community. In April 1944, all inhabitants of the palace Fried were commanded to leave the premises. German and Hungarian armies turned the building into the headquarters of the Gestapo, attic and basement turned into the prison. In the postwar period there situated the governance of the USSR’s KGB. Today there are not 24 apartments in the Fried Palace, they were divided into smaller, so now there are 32 flats.
