Stolpersteine in Ústí nad Labem Region

Generally, the stumbling blocks are posed in front of the building where the victims had their last self chosen residence.

In late 1938, when the Nazis occupied the so-called Sudetenland, all members of the Stern and Pächter family could flee to Prague in time.

At the end of November 1939, also Anna and their son — with the support of Jakob Edelstein — could follow the same route.

Vilhelmina Pächter was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp on 16 July 1942 where she wrote a cook book that survived the Nazi regime.

When her health deteriorated in 1943 she was taken care of Liesel Reich, a granddaughter of her deceased husband, who worked as nurse in the camp's hospital.

[9] Son Herbert married Grete née Justiz in 1939 and, together with his wife, emigrated to British Palestine.

Gertrud and Robert Bermeiser and their adopted daughter Eva (born 1936) were all deported to Łódź Ghetto in 1941.

Also her daughters Grete and Gertrude and their husbands Josef Schück and Robert Bermeiser did not survive the Shoah.

Even the little girl Eva, the adopted daughter of Gertrude and Robert, born in 1936, was killed by the Nazi authorities.

[33][34][35][36][37] Son Otto Šling fought in the Spanish Civil War, found exile in London and returned to Czechoslovakia in 1945.

The Stolpersteine in the Ústecký kraj were collocated by the artist himself on the following dates: The Czech Stolperstein project was initiated in 2008 by the Česká unie židovské mládeže (Czech Union of Jewish Youth) and was realized with the patronage of the Mayor of Prague.