The house of the girls’ orphanage at Puchmajerova 5 (today Lublaňská) Street was donated by Mořic Hahn in 1893. The Dime society also helped poor girls with money for their dowry. In 1940, the girls were moved to the boys’ orphanage in Belgická street and a Jewish hospital was established here in Lublaňská.
The rebuilding of the house was directed by František Zelenka , the modernist architect and graphic and stage designer of the famed Liberated Theater of Prague. At the time, Zelenka was labeled a Jew and sought any work as he also fell under the anti-Jewish legislation.
The impoverished population of tens of thousands of citizens labeled as Jews or Jewish “half-breeds” during the Protectorate had at their disposal three Jewish-Community funded hospitals for the whole of Prague. In Dušní street there were some 30 beds available, in Kateřinská street there were additional 40 and the reconstruction of the girls’ orphanage in Lublaňská provided the population with 50 more hospital beds.