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The Korn Family
\nThe Korn family (father Richard, mother Cecilie, and daughters Vera and Mariana) were a Czech Jewish family from Ostrava. They had a happy life together, full of art, music and nature,
\nthat was cruelly and tragically cut short. Some of their favorite family pastimes were attending opera at one of Ostrava\u2019s two opera houses, and taking vacations to the Tatra mountains in
\nSlovakia.
\nRichard was born in Ostrava in 1892. He was an educated, modern, liberal man, not particularly religious, with a great sense of humor. Before the war, Richard and Cecilie together
\nowned and operated a thriving, imported shoe store on the main square of the city. Richard played music constantly in the house \u2013 opera in particular \u2013 and transmitted a love of music to
\nhis children. As his surviving daughter Vera recalls, \u201che believed that the best way to bring up children was to trust them, and his children never broke that trust. He was against all
\nnationalism, believing that the only thing you can really be proud of is your own achievements.<\/p>\n
In 1939, the Nazis seized Ostrava, confiscated the family shoe store, and briefly detained Richard and Cecilie, after which the family relocated to Prague. Richard and Cecilie did their
\nbest to recreate a sense of normalcy at their apartment in the Vinohrady neighborhood, but this became increasingly difficult. The children were only allowed one more year of school, before
\nthis and many other rights were taken away. Richard and Cecilie made plans to emigrate to Chile but, after many delays, these plans were never realized. In 1943, the family was deported
\nto Terezin. In 1944, they were deported to Auschwitz, where Richard, Cecilie and Mariana were murdered.
\nWhat we know about Richard, Cecilie, and Mariana is largely thanks to Vera (born 1927) who survived the war, and in whom their spirit lives on to this day. Vera was held at Auschwitz for two
\nweeks, but then transported to the Birnbaumel labor camp. She escaped with a friend during the westward relocation of the camp (a \u201cdeath march\u201d) in 1945. After the war, she returned to
\nPrague, where she enrolled in art school and searched for news of her family\u2019s fate, which never came. In anticipation of the Soviet takeover, she emigrated to England, where she met and
\neventually married Alexander Bondy, a fellow Czech Jew whose family had escaped from Prague before the war broke out. Together they relocated to Montreal, Canada in 1953, where
\nthey found a free, unspoiled country and together started a new life. They had twin boys, who have gone on to have happy lives and families of their own. One was named Richard, after his
\ngrandfather, and the other Thomas, after the great helmsman of the independent Czechoslovakia and friend to the Jews, Tomas Masaryk.<\/p>\n
Vera says of Richard, Cecilie and Mariana that \u201ctheir love sustained me and their moral guidance gave me strength through all the difficulties I have had. I always tried to live my life in
\nthe way I know they would have wanted me to live.\u201d In 1994, for the 50th anniversary of their deportation to Auschwitz, Vera arranged a burial service for Richard, Cecilie and Mariana, at the
\nBaron de Hirsch cemetery in Montreal. Now, in 2025, their descendants are pleased to install \u201cStolpersteine,\u201d memorial stones, to keep their memories alive.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Address: LOND\u00ddNSK\u00c1 596\/28, PRAGUE 2 Born 05. 11. 1892 Last residence before deportation: Prague XII Address\/place of registration in the Protectorate: Prague XII, Mnichovsk\u00e1 28 Transport Do, no. 33\u00a0(11. 09. 1943, Prague -> Terez\u00edn) Transport El, no. 283\u00a0(29. 09. 1944, Terez\u00edn -> Auschwitz) Murdered Holocaust database The Korn Family The Korn family (father Richard, mother […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-praha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolpersteinecz.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolpersteinecz.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolpersteinecz.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolpersteinecz.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolpersteinecz.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10004"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stolpersteinecz.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10475,"href":"https:\/\/stolpersteinecz.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions\/10475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolpersteinecz.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolpersteinecz.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolpersteinecz.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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