List of stumbling blocks in Mikulov

Stumbling block for Anna Pisková in front of her house

The list of stumbling blocks in Mikulov contains the stumbling blocks in the Czech town of Mikulov in Jihomoravský kraj (South Moravian Region), which remind us of the fate of the people of this region who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide by the National Socialists . The Stolpersteine were laid by Gunter Demnig on October 30, 2012.

The Czech stumbling block project Stolpersteine.cz was launched in 2008 by the Česká unie židovské mládeže (Czech Union of Jewish Youth). The stumbling blocks are to Czech stumbling blocks called alternatively kameny zmizelých (stones of the disappeared).

Mikulov

Surname	Location	Life
Hana Hlavenková (nee Pisková)	Koněvova 42	Hana Hlavenková born. Pisková, also Johana Anna, was born on May 13, 1925. She was the daughter of Hilda Pisková and Otto Pisa and the granddaughter of Anna Pisková. She had a twin brother named Paul. She survived the Theresienstadt ghetto , the Auschwitz concentration camp and the death march from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in the winter of 1945 . Her grandmother was deported to the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 , her mother to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1944. Both were murdered by the Nazi regime. In 1947 their son, Lubomír Hlavenka, was born. After 37 years, he returned to his hometown to lay the stumbling blocks for mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. He recalled that the family had been anchored in Mikulov since at least 1648. The death certificate of his and his mother's ancestor Jakob Pisa dates from this year.
Anna Pisková (nee Karpelesová)	Husova 84/9	Anna Pisková born Karpelesová was born on May 15, 1868. Her husband ran a brick factory. She had at least one son, Otto, who inherited from his father. Her last place of residence before the deportation was Brno. She was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on March 29, 1942 with Transport Ae (her transport number was 814). On April 24, 1942, she was transferred to the Warsaw Ghetto with Transport An (her transport number was 102). Of 1,000 people on this transport, only eleven survived. Anna Pisková was one of the murdered.
Hilda Pisková (nee Paschkeová)	Koněvova 42	Hilda Pisková was born on February 2, 1898. She was married to Otto Piska, a brick factory owner. The couple had twins, daughter Hana and son Paul in 1925. Hilda Pisková's last place of residence before the deportation was Brno. She was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on May 27, 1942 with Transport AAa (her transport number was 45). On October 16, 1944, she was transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau with Transport Er (her transport number was 1145). There she was murdered by the Nazi regime. Her mother was also killed in the Holocaust . Her daughter Hana, however, was able to survive the concentration camp and Todermassch and in 1947 had a son, Lubomír Hlavenka, who in 2012 ordered the stumbling blocks for mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. He regretted that he did not have the means to have stumbling blocks laid for all 400 victims from Mikulov.