Grete Reiner (1891-1944) - translator and editor

Grete Reiner, born Margarethe Stein, was a German-speaking Jewish translator and editor who lived in the villa of the Nad olšinami 672/4. She was born in Prague on December 7, 1891 and was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp in March 1944. She was married twice, first to the lawyer Oskar Straschnow, with whom she had a son named Kurt, and later to the press spokesman of the Austrian embassy, Karel Reiner, who was murdered in Auschwitz in 1943.

Grete Reiner is best known for her translation of Jaroslav Hašek's „The Good Soldier Schwejk“, which she completed in 1926. She supplemented the fragmentary work with her own episodes.

From 1936, she published the emigrant newspaper „Deutsche Volkszeitung“ in Prague. She was an important member of the Hilfskomitee für deutsche Flüchtlinge (Promočny komitét pro německý uprchlíky), which existed until March 1939.

In December 1942, she was arrested by the Gestapo partly because of her Jewish origin and deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and later transported to Auschwitz, where she was probably gassed in the night of March 8-9, 1944.