List of stumbling blocks in Královéhradecký kraj
The list of stumbling blocks in Královéhradecký kraj contains the stumbling blocks that were laid in Královéhradecký kraj . They remind of the fate of the people who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide by the National Socialists in the Czech Republic. The Stolperstein in Kostelec nad Orlicí was laid on October 29, 2012 and the Stolpersteine in Náchod on August 2, 2016 by Gunter Demnig . The stumbling blocks are to Czech stumbling blocks called alternatively kameny zmizelých (stones of the disappeared).
The Czech stumbling block project Stolpersteine.cz was launched in 2008 by the Česká unie židovské mládeže (Czech Union of Jewish Youth) and was under the patronage of the Prague Mayor. The stumbling blocks are usually in front of the last self-chosen place of residence of the respective victim.
Kostelec nad Orlicí
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Rudolf Hoffmann | Komenského 465 ![]() |
Rudolf Hoffmann was born on February 17, 1880 in Pardubice . He was a foreman and lived in Kostelec nad Orlicí. He was with Marie, geb. Záleská, married. He was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp and murdered there on August 31, 1944 by the Nazi regime. |
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Goldschmid family
In 1846 Samuel Goldschmid founded a textile factory in Náchod. The company was then run by his son Max Michael Goldschmid and then by his grandson Hanuš Goldschmid . Today the building no longer exists. Hanuš Goldschmid had five sisters, all born in Náchod, all murdered in concentration camps by the Nazi regime.
Stumbling blocks
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Lilly Haasová b. Goldschmidová |
Masarykovo nam. 57 ![]() |
Lilly Haasová was born on June 17, 1884. Her husband, Rudolf Haas, came from Mladá Boleslav but lived in Prague. After becoming a widow, she returned to Náchod, where she first lived with her brother Hanuš in her parents' house and later, when Jews were no longer allowed to live in the main square, in the Schur family's house in Tyršova ulice with her sister Jenny . Both sisters were deported from Hradec Králové to the Theresienstadt concentration camp on December 17, 1942 . On September 6, 1943, Lilly Haasová was transported by transport to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where she was housed in the so-called Theresienstadt family camp. Her life ended on March 8, 1944 in a gas chamber. Her son Max, born in 1912, was deported from Prague to the Litzmannstadt ghetto in Poland in 1941. He survived the Shoah , was liberated in Mühldorf, but then ended his life. |
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Lotte Krausová b. Goldschmidová |
Masarykovo nam. 57 ![]() |
Lotte Krausová was born on March 26, 1898 in Náchod. She was the youngest daughter of Max Michael Goldschmid. She stayed in her father's household until 1928 and then married the Náchod doctor Karl Kraus. The couple had a son, Míša, born in 1930. The family was deported from Hradec Králové to the Theresienstadt ghetto on December 17, 1942 . On December 15, 1943, she was transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and taken to the so-called family camp. Her husband was killed in a gas chamber. Lotte Krausová was later deported to the Stutthof concentration camp and died there on January 8, 1945 as a result of forced labor and illness. Her son, called Míša, survived the Shoah and returned to Náchod. He later emigrated and described his life and survival in the concentration camp in a diary. |
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Jenny Schurová b. Goldschmidová |
Masarykovo nam. 57 ![]() |
Jenny Schurová, born in 1878, was the oldest of the five sisters. In 1900 she married the widower Gustav Schur. Schur's family lived at Tyršova ulice 200. Their older son Franz, born in 1901 in Náchod, later became the owner of the factory in Hlinsko. After the destruction of the rest of Czech Republic by the Nazi regime, he was able to flee, but not his wife and the two small children, all of whom were murdered in Auschwitz. Her second son Bedřich, born on July 6, 1906 in Náchod, worked in the father's factory. In 1939 he, his wife Edith Heller (born on December 7th, 1914 in Náchod) and their son Peter (born on December 6th, 1938 in Úpice) were able to save themselves by emigrating to Constantinople . The family later settled in Brazil. In December 1942, Jenny Schurová was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp at the age of 64 . She spent a year there before she was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in December 1943 . She was murdered in a gas chamber on the night of March 7-8, 1944. |
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Alice Schwabacherová b. Goldschmidová |
Masarykovo nam. 57 ![]() |
Alice Schwabacherová was born in Náchod on April 28, 1881. She was the second daughter of Max Michael Goldschmid. After her marriage, she moved to Prague. On April 24, 1942, she and her husband were deported from there to the Theresienstadt ghetto, where her husband was killed. On September 6, 1943, she was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. She was murdered in a gas chamber on the night of March 7-8, 1944. |
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Mariana Steinerová b. Goldschmidová |
Masarykovo nam. 57 ![]() |
Mariana Steinerová was born on May 21, 1886. She was the fourth daughter of Max Michael Goldschmid. She spent her childhood and youth in Náchod. After marrying Arthur or Artur Steiner, she moved to Pardubice . From there she was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on December 9, 1942 and sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on September 6, 1943. There she was murdered in a gas chamber. Her daughter Liselotte, later married under the name Horáčková, was also deported to Theresienstadt, but was able to survive. |
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- Stolpersteine.eu , Demnig's website
- Holocaust.cz , Czech Holocaust database (German version)
- Goldschmidová family , Czech
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zdeňka Kuchyňová: Praha má na chodnících své první pamětní Kameny holocaustu , report of the Czech radio station Radio Praha of October 19, 2008, online at: www.radio.cz / ...
- ↑ Report of the Stolpersteine.cz association , online at: Stolpersteine in the Czech Republic ( Memento from October 15, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
- ^ Rudolf Hoffmann in the central database of the names of the Holocaust victims of the Yad Vashem memorial
- ↑ mestonachod: Kameny zmizelých (Stolpersteine) pro pět sester Goldschmidových z Náchoda , accessed on March 14, 2017 (Czech)
- ↑ Lilly Haasova in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial
- ↑ Lotte Kraus in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial
- ↑ Lotte Krausova in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial
- ↑ Alice Schwabacher in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial
- ↑ Alice Schwabacherova in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial
- ↑ Mariana Steinerova in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial