Address: JINDŘICHA PLACHTY 1162/20, PRAGUE 5
Born 24. 01. 1870
Last residence before deportation: Prague XVI
Address/place of registration in the Protectorate: Prague XVI, Zdíkova 12
Transport AAq, no. 265 (13. 07. 1942, Prague -> Terezín)
Transport Bw, no. 1467 (19. 10. 1942, Terezín -> Treblinka)
Murdered
The stone for Albert Ehrlich has a touching story. A Czech lady, Zlata Krčilová (Cc.) had it laid, and I quote here what she wrote that day as a message to the inhabitants of the house:
“Dear residents of house No. 20, I lived in this house with my parents after the WWII, on the first floor, in the apartment of the former owner of the house, the apartment had two entrances and in the fifties it was divided and so we moved out. After ’89 the house had no owner and I learned that it belonged to a Jewish family who perished in a concentration camp. I found out that the owner was Mr. Albert Ehrlich, a coal merchant and he was single. He was transported to Theresienstadt on July 13, 1942, and on October 19, 1942, to Treblinka, an extermination camp created by the Nazis in eastern Poland, where approximately 820,000 people were murdered. After the prisoners’ uprising in August 1943, the camp was closed. Of my own free will I had this memorial plaque made, I am not related, I am Catholic and was led to do so by reading books from this period and not understanding that humans are capable of this.”
The note was spotted by a journalist living in that quarter who wrote about it.
After we added the stone to our website, Sabine Ehrlich (Cc.) from Switzerland recorded the trace of her relative, and we were able to link the two sides.