Stolpersteine in Prague-Malá Strana

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

[2] Despite his advanced age, after 15 March 1939 he became one of leading anti-Nazi resistance fighters and the head of an illegal political organization.

On 26 January 1940 he was arrested by the Gestapo, went through four months of severe interrogations and was then deported to Moabit prison in Berlin.

His son Jaromir, a professor of entomology, was shot dead in the aftermath of the Heydrich assassination.

[5] The Stolpersteine of Prague-Malá Strana were posed by the artist himself on the following days: 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.