Apartment/Flat

Emil Kolben was a pioneering electrical engineer and industrialist - influenced by leading personalities such as Edison and Tesla - and co-founder of one of the most important Czechoslovakian industrial conglomerates - ČKD. Despite his visionary achievements and public recognition, he fell victim to National Socialist persecution in June 1942 and died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp on July 3, 1943.

Since 2022, the “Červená vila” has belonged to the city of Prague 10..

The Jewish owner of the villa, František Kraus, born on 06.05.1914, was forced to move out in 1941 and deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on 14.12.1941.He was murdered on September 1, 1942 in Majdanek

The villa was occupied and used by the Prague Gestapo.

Gertrude Sandmann (16.10.1893 in Berlin – 06.01.1981) was a Berlin artist and women's activist.

<p>Franziska Bruck was a school founder, author and entrepreneur and was born in Ratibor in 1866. She made art with flowers.</p><p>Often it was just a branch in a narrow vase that developed a tremendous life of its own: idiosyncratic, lively, powerful and beautiful. Franziska Bruck refrained from opulent, colorful strands with specially selected flowers. Her bouquets were not constricting, but tried to do justice to the natural beauty of each plant.

Tom Seidmann-Freud was born on November 17, 1892 in Vienna with the name Martha Gertrud Freud. She moved to Berlin with her family when she was still a child, where they lived at 6 Ansbacher Strasse. When she was around 15, she dropped the name Martha and decided to go by Tom. She enjoyed a good education, studied in London and in Berlin at the 'Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums' and received attention for her artistic work at a very young age. Her first book, the „Baby Liederbuch", was published in 1914.

Siegmund Kohn (born 1874 in Zahrawitz) had lived in Schöna since August 1922 and worked in the Brach tät family's Elbschloss Malzfabrik". In June 1923, Julie Kohn (Kohnova) (birth name unknown; born 1877 in Petrowitz), who was married to Siegmund Kohn, and their son Ernst (born 1903 in Kajlovec) also moved to Schöna. The family lived in an apartment in the malt factory. The Kohn family were Czechoslovakian citizens.

Joseph Nathan

The doctor and poet Isaac Salomon (Siegfried) Kapper, born on March 21, 1821 in Smíchow near Prague; died on June 7, 1879 in Pisa, was a pioneer and founder of the Czech-Jewish movement.The group around Kapper strove for the full spiritual freedom of the Jews and their assimilation into the Czech milieu. In 1848 (Prague Whitsun Uprising), Kapper took part in the revolutionary and national struggles on the side of the Czechs.

Božena Neumannová, née Fuchsová and her daughter Jiřina Sofie were murdered in Auschwitz extermination camp in 1944.

Her husband MUDr. Antonín Neuman – he worked as a prisoner in the camp hospital of the Auschwitz extermination camp – and daughter Eva Marie üsurvived the Shoa.

Shortly before 1939, the Neumann couple had their children Eva and Jiřina baptized as Christians because they thought this would save them from Nazi persecution.

Ilse Maria Landgrebe, née Goldschmidt, was born in Reinbek in 1906. Her parents - Arthur Goldschmidt (lawyer) and Toni Katharina-Maria Jeanette née Horschitz - were Christians of Jewish origin.

Ilse Maria Goldschmidt married the phenomenologist and philosopher Ludwig Landgrebe in 1933.

Because of his Jewish-Christian wife Ilse Maria, Ludwig Landgrebe fled to Prague in 1935.