Irma Lauscherová, the first-born child of Růžena and Jaroslav Kohn, was born on May 2, 1904 at Heřmanův Městec, a town known for its prominent and large Jewish religious community. Her father Jaroslav owned one of the town´s footwear factories. Five years later, another member, Irma´s brother Georg, was born to the family that lived in […]
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Jiří Lauscher
Jiří Lauscher was born in Terezín on September 14, 1901 to parents Siegfried and Anna. The family lived in the premises of the local watermills where Siegfried served as a clerk. Shortly after her husband´s death in 1911, the widowed Anna with both sons, the first-born František and the younger Jiří, moved to her relatives […]
Was the group of Jewish inmates, who came to the Terezín Ghetto on November 24, 1941, really made up of 342 men?
Some readers may find this question futile. The Terezín historiographic sources assert that a commando of 342 men fit for work did arrive in the Sudeten Barracks (E I) on November 24, 1941, that the Ghetto´s gate closed behind them and at that moment their labor deployment turned into permanent jail.[1] This initial figure appears not […]
Hana Hnátová
Hana Hnátová, née Lustigová, was born in Prague on June 20, 1924 into a Czech-speaking family of a trained sales clerk and a seamstress, née Löwyová. The Lustig family lived in Prague´s Libeň quarter. The economic crisis in the 1930s dramatically affected her father´s business who earned his living as a retailer in textile goods. […]
