Apartment/Flat

Josef Heinrich Halberstein was born on  November 6, 1917 in Vienna. His parents were  the commercial clerk Osias  ( Oskar, Joshua or Yehoshua) and Chaya ( Rachel) Halberstein. Josef Heinrich had an older brother - Daniel, born on January 1, 1913. Josef Heinrich Halberstein studied at the Hochschule f r Welthandel in the winter semester 1935/36 and winter semester 1937/38. He took his last exams in June and October 1937. He was no longer able to attend the last semester of the diploma course.

Rosette Dörnbrack, née Blumann - * 01.06.1883 in Tostedt, † 07.05.1966 in Rotenburg/Wümme

Selma Blumann, born on July 16, 1882 in Tostedt, murdered on November 15, 1942 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

The following lived here:

Martha Hecht, née Rosen
* 05.05.1891 in Mönchengladbach, † 09.07.1943 in Sobibor
Martha Rosen married Walter Hecht in Berlin in 1920, their daughter Ursula was born in 1922. In June 1941, the small family was registered in Bussum in the Netherlands, from 1943 in Amsterdam. It is not known when they were deported. Martha and Walter Hecht died in the Sobibor extermination camp in July 1943. Their daughter Ursula was killed in Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1944.

Sara Horwitz, née Meyer, was the third wife of the wealthy cattle dealer Gustav Horwitz (1861 - 1932).

Sara Horwitz was deported from Hamburg to the Theresienstadt/Terezin ghetto on 5 May 1943 on transport VI/6.

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.