Address: SLEZSKÁ 2140/118, PRAGUE 3
Born 15. 10. 1890
Last residence before deportation: Prague VIII
Transport Ca, no. 854 (24. 10. 1942, Prague -> Terezín)
Murdered 17. 01. 1943 Terezín
The Pátek siblings (Ludwig, Josef, Vilém, Jana, and Terezie) came from an assimilated Jewish family in Telč. The eldest, Ludwig Pátek, was severely disabled from birth in 1880 and no photograph of him exists. In 1942, he was deported to Terezín, where he was murdered on January 17, 1943. Josef Pátek (born 1886) and Vilém Pátek (born 1892) married Czech women of non-Jewish origin and each had two children. Josef managed to emigrate to England in 1939, where he unfortunately died soon after. His son, who left Bohemia with him, lived in Scotland until the end of his life. His daughter Hana survived the war in Prague with her mother and later emigrated to Australia. Vilém Pátek remained in Bohemia and, on the advice of the family lawyer, divorced his wife, who survived the war with their daughters Milena and Věra. He himself was deported in 1942 via Terezín to Sobibór Ossowa, where he was murdered. His two sisters were on the same death transports: Jana Pátková, an avid tourist known as Žanda (born 1896), and Terezie Gráfová (née Pátková, 1899), who was murdered together with her husband Leo Gráf (born 1899).