Stolpersteine in Prague-Břevnov, Bubeneč and Dejvice

The stumbling blocks remind and make aware of the fate of the people who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven into suicide by the national socialists.

In Czech, the stumbling blocks are called Kameny zmizelých; stones of the disappeared.

His son Peter Aschner, who had attended the textile school in Vienna, worked as a weaver in exile.

In England he met the journalist Ilse Maria b. Römer from Vienna, who became his second wife.

Among other things Peter Aschner published for the Wiener Tagebuch and the International Presseschau, he also worked as a translator.

Emil Aschner's daughter Eva became an interpreter, returned to Prague, married Walter Vergeiner and had a child with him.

Two of his four brothers were able to survive in exile: Bernhard Aschner (1883-1960) became a respected doctor, was married to Johanna b.

His daughter Anna married Bedřich Hellmann (born 1915) at an unknown date .

His last residential address before deportation was in Prague XIII, Nad Primaskou 10.

[21] His wife was arrested when she wanted to inquire information, and was then deported to Auschwitz concentration camp.

After the end of the Nazi regime the children were found again and entrusted to their uncle for education.

[22] Milada Šámalová was able to survive the concentration camp, she died on 12 September 1981 and was buried in the cemetery of the Basilica of St. Peter and Paul on the Vyšehrad.

Jiří Fate grand daughter Paulette Nessim became board member of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.

At least three of his brothers and one sister were also killed in the Shoah: On 13 June 1942, Leo and his wife were deported from Theresienstadt to an unknown place and subsequently murdered.

One of her pictures, showing a ball-playing youngster called Dětské hry (children's games), is owned by the Jewish Museum in Prague.

[66] Finally, the family was separated on September 28, 1944, and Ařnost Spitz was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp by Transport Ek.

In the end, all three were murdered by the Nazi regime, but the date of death is only known of Ařnost Spitz: 18 January 1945 in Dachau concentration camp.