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On 23 July 1942, the Jewish lawyer Dr. Karel Prager, born 18 July 1888 in Belá (Žilina), was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto together with his wife Ida Pragerová (born 12 August 1902 in Prague) and their son Tomy Prager (born 22 April 1928 in Prague). From there, they were deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp on 26.01.1943 and murdered.

Daughter Eva Pragerová (born 1931) was able to flee to Great Britain on a Kindertransport in 1939.

Štěpánka Mikešová, née Löwingerová lived in Liditz / Ldice in house no. 93 and was denounced by her landlady Alžběta Doležalová because of her Jewish origin and was arrested on June 2, 1942 by the Protectorate gendarmes Evžen Ressl and František Caba. On June 2, 1942, she was arrested by the Protectorate gendarmes Evžen Ressl and František Caba and handed over to the Gestapo in Kladno. The arrest took place a few days before the massacre and the destruction of the village under the command of the SS. On August 17 of the same year, she was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Immediately after the occupation of the remaining territories of Czechoslovakia by the Third Reich, the Czech patriot and Jewish manufacturer and art collector Jindřich Waldes was arrested by the Gestapo on September 1, 1939. On September 1, 1939, he was arrested by the Gestapo and forced to hand over part of his art collection to the National Gallery. On September 10, 1939, he was deported to the Dachau concentration camp. On September 26 of the same year, he was transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp.

Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883 in Prague, which at the time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. His birthplace was located on the corner of the Great Ring (Staroměstské náměstí No. 2), near the Teyn Church in Prague's Old Town.

However, this original building was destroyed by fire in 1897. The current house on this site is a reconstructed building known as "Kafka's birthplace". Today, it houses a small exhibition about Kafka and his life.

Louis Wertheimer was born on September 4, 1873 in Gunzenhausen. His parents were Amson Wertheimer and Carolina Wertheimer, née Steppacher from Ichenhausen. Louis had eight siblings - four half-siblings from his father's 1st marriage to  Amalia Lehmann, born on July 7, 1835 in Gunzenhausen, - Emma, born on  July 20, 1863, - Elise, born on March 20, 1866, -  Albert, born on April 13, 1867 and  Siegfried, born on December 12, 1868.

Franz Werfel was born in Prague in 1890 to a wealthy German-speaking Jewish family. His father was a successful industrialist. Although Werfel was of Jewish origin, religion played only a subordinate role in the family's everyday life; the family was culturally assimilated, western-oriented and rather secular.

Despite this secular background, Judaism remained a prominent theme in Werfel's life, especially on an intellectual and moral level.

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.

Egon Erwin Kisch was born on April 29, 1885 in Prague in the house „Zu den zwei goldenen Bären“ at Melantrichova 475/16. He grew up there with his four brothers; his father Hermann Kisch's cloth shop was on the ground floor

In 1897, as a child, he experienced the infamous nationalist-motivated ‚December Storm‘, which began with an attack on German-speaking institutions, but then turned into anti-Semitic terror. Only the intervention of soldiers put a stop to the mob.

Biskupský Dvůr 1147/6: The last Prague residence of the writer, theater and music critic Max Brod. He was deeply connected to Judaism, more so than many of his Prague contemporaries, who were often influenced by secularism (such as Franz Kafka or Franz Werfel). Brod was a staunch Zionist and actively supported the idea of a Jewish state. He was already involved in Zionist circles in the 1920s.