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Class portrait of pupils at an elementary school in Prague.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 42635
Class portrait of pupils at an elementary school in Prague. Among those pictured is Marta Mautnerova (third row from the front, first child on the left); Lotty Voticka (front row, second from the right), who survived Theresienstadt with Marta; and Ludmilla Smolkova (third row from the front, second from the left), who survived the war in Shanghai.

Class portrait of pupils at an elementary school in Prague.

Among those pictured is Marta Mautnerova (third row from the front, first child on the left); Lotty Voticka (front row, second from the right), who survived Theresienstadt with Marta; and Ludmilla Smolkova (third row from the front, second from the left), who survived the war in Shanghai.

Date
1923
Locale
Prague, [Bohemia] Czechoslovakia
Variant Locale
Praha
Czech Republic
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Czechoslovakia -- School/University/Youth Groups
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Marta Mautnerova Pekova

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Biography
Marta Mautnerova (now Pekova) is the daughter of Zigmund Mautner and Hedvika Mautnerova. She was born in Prague on August 8, 1913. Marta had three siblings: Eliska (b. June 3, 1911), Josef (b. May 7, 1919) and Jiri (b. September 8, 1925). On May 1, 1932 Marta married Karel Pick (later Peka) in Prague. During their honeymoon in Italy the following year, the couple met Mussolini who was staying at the same resort. Their daughter, Alena, was born three years later, on March 20, 1935. After the Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia and the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in March 1939, the family was trapped in Prague. They were soon forced to abandon their home and move in with another Jewish family. In November 1941 Marta's husband was deported to Theresienstadt with the second transport, AK2. Marta and Alena followed in December. In Theresienstadt, Karel was employed as an electrician at the power station, while Marta worked in the camp administration office. All three evaded deportation to Auschwitz and were liberated in Theresienstadt on May 8, 1945. Marta's parents and siblings, however, all perished, some in Theresienstadt and others in Auschwitz.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Marta Mautnerova Pekova
 
Record last modified: 2003-11-18 00:00:00
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