Apartment/Flat

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.

The address book of the city of Munich from 1887 contains the following entries - Weil Moriz, grocer, Hartmannstr.7, - Weil Hermann, merchant, Ottostraße 5, - Geschäfts-Lokal Hartmannstraße 7 -  Moriz Weil was born in Wallerstein on February 13, 1814. The roots of his ancestors go back to 1653, when Nemb Weil was born in Wallerstein. Moriz Weil´s parents were Löw Isak Weil, born in Wallerstein in 1778, and Fradel Weil, née Hausmann from Harburg. Moriz Weil was married to Charlotte Gutmann, born in Hainsfarth in 1817.

The roots of Leopold Gompertz go back to Mordechai Gumpel before 1516.  Mordechai Juda Gumpel, father of Rabbi Salomon ben Mordechai Gompel Emmerich (Gumpel), was born in Emmerich between 1531 and 1545. Leopold Gompertz was married to Henriette Charlotte Wetzlar, born on February 3, 1864 in Frankfurt am Main, whose family roots can be traced back to Amschel Wetzlar, who died in Frankfurt am Main in 1604. Leopold and Henriette Charlotte Gompertz had a son - Leon Julius Bernhard Gompertz, born on January 25, 1888 in Amsterdam - died on July 15, 1943 in Amsterdam.

About the card - The postcard was addressed to the 8-year-old Julius Neumeyer, who of course still lived with his parents at that time, and the sender of the card was Sophie Rosenau, the mother of Emma Neumeyer and grandmother of Julius Neumeyer, born on May 16, 1898 in Chemnitz.