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  1. Löwenherz, Josef (1884 - 1960)

    Born 1884 in Piwowszczyzna (Galicia). Died 1960 in New York. Head of the Jewish Community in Vienna between 1938 and 1945. Löwenherz was a Zionist and lawyer and later "Elder of the Jews" in Vienna. In May 1945 he was arrested by the Red Army. Löwenherz died in New York in 1960.

  2. Löw-Danneberg, Franziska ("Franzi") (1916 - 1997)

    Born 1916 in Vienna. Died 1997 in Vienna. Franzi Löw was working in the resistance and was an employee in the Welfare Department of the Jewish Community in Vienna. She took the custodianship for 200 Jewish children and took guadianship for further 20 mentally handicapped children. By forging documents she saved these children from the transport into Death Camps. From 1942 onwards she was leading the Welfare Department of the Jewish Community in Vienna. She helped several Jews hiding with food stamps. Franzi Löw survived in Vienna.

  3. Klang, Heinrich (1875 - 1954)

    Born 1875 in Vienna. Died 1954 in Vienna. Officer in the Austrian-Hungarian Army. President of the Higher Regional Court in Vienna. Professor for civil law. Chief judge of the Ghetto Court in Terezín. Member of the Council of the Elders of the Jews in Terezín. Transported to Terezín in September 1942. Survived.

  4. Feldsberg, Ernst (1894 - ?)

    Born 1894 in Mikulov (Nikolsburg). Feldsberg studied law in Vienna and also worked for the Jewish Community in Vienna from November 1938 onwards. Feldberg became head of the Cemetary Department of the Jewish Community. In 1943 he was transported to Terezín together with his wife, where he survived. Between 1963 and 1970 Ernst Feldsberg was Head of the Jewish Community in Vienna.

  5. Engel, Emil (1881 - 1958)

    Born 1881. Died 1958. Emil Engel was a member of the board of the Jewish Community in Vienna from 1926. Between 1928 and 1940 Engel was head of the Social Welfare Department. Engel emigrated to the United States in 1940.

  6. Ehrlich, Jakob (1877 - 1938)

    Born 1877 in Bystřice pod Hostýnem (Czech Republic). Died 1938 in Dachau. Ehrlich was a Zionist and later represented the Jewish Community in Vienna to the Austro-fascist government. He was transported with the so-called "Prominententransport" (prominent people's transport) to Dachau immediately after the Anschluss where he was executed some weeks later.

  7. Dessauer, Heinrich

    Born 1883 in Vienna. Died 1944 in Auschwitz. Lawyer and member of the Jewish Council of the Elders in Vienna. Transported to Terezín in January 1943. Transported to Auschwitz in October 1944.

  8. Zucker, Ota (1892 - 1944)

    Born 1892 in Brno. Died 1944 in Auschwitz. Architect. Zionist. Worked for the Jewish Community in Prague, was in charge of the Collection "Opfer Aufbau Leben",which rich Jewish citizen contributed to to help Jewish elderly, sick or poor people and orphans. In December 1941 deported to Terezín. Deputy Elder of the Jews in Terezín and member of the Council of the Elders of the Jews in Terezín. Transported to Auschwitz in October 1944.

  9. Volavková, Hana (1904 - 1985)

    Born 1904 in Jaroměř. Died 1985 in Prague. Art historian, director of the Jewish Museum in Prague. Worked in Municipal library of Prague, then in the library of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague. From 1943 worked for the Central Jewish Museum in Prague. Deported to Terezín in February 1945. After WWII worked in the Jewish Museum in Prague, became the director.

  10. Türková, Milada (1906 - 1944)

    Born 1906 in Mníšek pod Brdy. Died 1944 in Auschwitz. Worked as a civil servent in Prague. During WWII worked as a correspondent for the Jewish Community in Prague. Her husband was an employee of the Financial Department at the Jewish Community in Prague. She was deported to Auschwitz in October 1944.

  11. Schück, Viktor (1896 - 1943)

    Born 1896. Died 1943 in Auschwitz. Photographer. One of five photographers who are known to have worked for the Jewish Community in Prague during the war. From the remaining records it seems, that whilst others were involved more with news footage, Viktor Schück was employed at the Central Jewish Museum where he specialised in documenting collection pieces, buildings and cemeteries. Deported to Terezín in July 1943. Transported to Auschwitz in September 1943.

  12. Rubens, Arnošt (1915 - 1945)

    Born 1915. Died 1945 in Auschwitz or Dachau. In 1933 emigrated to Palestine. Expelled from the country by the authorities due to his political (Communist) activities. Returned to Prague, studied medicine. During WWII worked at the Treuhandstelle at the Jewish Community in Prague. Unsuccessfully tried to get visa to USA and Australia. Deported to Terezín in September 1943. Transported to Auschwitz in October 1944.

  13. Polák, Josef (1886 - 1945)

    Born 1886 in Prague. In 1945 dissappeared without trace in Auschwitz. Art historian, museum specialist. Czech-Jew. Director of the state East Slovak Museum in Košice. In 1942 became the main curator of the Jewish Central Museum in Prague. Became involed in the resistance movement, arrested by the Gestapo in August 1944.

  14. Muneles, Otto (1894 - 1967)

    Born 1894 in Prague. Died 1967 in Prague. Important Hebrew scholar and historian. At the beginning of WWI travelled together with his friend Jiří Mordechai Langer (author of Nine Gates) to Galicia, stayed in a Hasidic community in Belz and spent several years in Rzeczic, where he studied halakha and hasidic liturature. Received rabbinic ordination. In 1922 returned to Prague, was active in Chevra kadisha. During WWII worked for the Central Jewish Museum in Prague. Deportated to Terezín in July 1943, worked in the library, cataloged Hebrew books that had been confiscated from libraries by th...

  15. Kronberger, František (1904 - ?)

    Born 1904. Was a motorcycle and car racer, as well as a salesman for JAWA motorcycle and cars and the Zlín Z-XII aircraft produced by the Baťa company. In 1932 they won the silver medal for Czechoslovakia at the legendary International Six Days Trial. During WWII an employee of the Personnel Office at the Jewish Community in Prague. Together with his son Ivan he survived the war in Prague. He was not deported due to his (so-called) mixed marriage.

  16. Kolár, Erik (* 18.4.1906 - 1976)

    Born 1906 in Prague. Died 1976 in Switzerland. Studied law. Worked for the Council of the Elders in Prague, from 1942 head of the Department Registration of the Jews. Deported to Terezín in March 1945. After WWII worked as script writer, publicist, theatre reviewer. Emigrated to Switzerland.

  17. Knapp, Viktor (1913 - 1996)

    Born 1913 in Prague. Died 1996. Lawyer. During WWII an employee of the Jewish Community in Prague. One of the leading figure of the Prague´s lawyer community after WWII. 1948 - 1954 was the head of the political section of the President´s Office. Worked as a professor at the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague (1951-1990s). Member of the Federal Assembly until 1971.

  18. Hájek, Hugo (1903 - 1950s)

    Born 1903 in Prague. Died in the 1950s. Civil servant. Unsuccessfully tried to get visa to USA. From 1944 worked at workshop of the Council of the Elders in Prague. Deported to Terezín in February 1945.

  19. Gutmannová, Františka (1899 - 1944)

    Born 1899. Died 1944 in Auschwitz. Baroness Františka Gutmannová (neé Mayová) was the wife of the industrial magnate Vilém Gutmann, co-owner of Gebrüder Gutmann. Amongst other things, this company owned coal mines in Upper Silesia and, with the Rothschilds, founded what is now the Vítkovice Ironworks. Vilém Gutmann emigrated before the outbreak of war. Františka remained alone in Prague with her four children Eliška, Zuzana, Gertruda and František. During WWII she worked for the Jewish Community in Prague, in the stock of the Treuhandstelle. In the summer of 1944, together with her children...

  20. Grün, Vilém (1903 - 1945)

    Born 1903 in Slovanské Lhota. Died in 1950. Worked for the Electrical Utilities of Prague as driver and ticket collector. Was a football referee. During WWII employee of the Jewish Community in Prague, not certain of what department. Unsuccessfully tried to emigrate to Shanghai. He was not deported due to his (so-called) mixed marriage with Božena Hlaváčková. In 1947 changed family surname to Jánský.