{"id":694,"date":"2025-10-17T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spolek.org\/?p=694"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:21:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:21:34","slug":"stolperstein-za-hanuse-polacha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spolek.org\/en\/stolperstein-za-hanuse-polacha\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolperstein for Hanu\u0161 Polach"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 15 October 2025, a memorial stone (Stolperstein) was laid in Prague\u2019s Hole\u0161ovice district, in front of the house at U Smaltovny 19, to commemorate lawyer JUDr. Hanu\u0161 (Hans) Polach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hanu\u0161 Polach was born in 1899 in Vienna. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the German University in Prague, where he later worked as a trainee lawyer. He subsequently served as a legal counsel for a pension insurance company. Together with his wife Elisabeth, n\u00e9e Adler from Hamburg, and their daughter Dita, he lived in a modern \u201celectric\u201d house on U Smaltovny Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JUDr. Hans Polach with his family (1932), source: Wikimedia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After the establishment of the Protectorate, Hanu\u0161 Polach lost his job and the family was forced to leave their apartment in Hole\u0161ovice. On 20 November 1942, they were deported to the Terez\u00edn ghetto, and a year later transferred to Auschwitz. Hanu\u0161 Polach was killed there on 5 February 1944; his wife died several months after the end of the war as a result of her imprisonment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only their daughter Dita survived. Two years after the war, she married Ota Kraus, and in 1949 the couple emigrated to Israel with their young daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stolpersteine, small brass cubes set into the pavement, commemorate the victims of Nazi persecution \u2013 those who were murdered, deported, or forced to flee. In Prague alone, there are now more than 850<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you would like to contribute to their maintenance, you can help by cleaning the stones (instructions here<\/a>). You can send the result to info@stolpersteinecz.cz<\/a> or share it on social media using the hashtag #cistimeStolpersteine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

cover photo: Hana Jani\u0161ov\u00e1<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

15. \u0159\u00edjna 2025 byl v pra\u017esk\u00fdch Hole\u0161ovic\u00edch, p\u0159ed domem U Smaltovny 19, polo\u017een pam\u011btn\u00ed k\u00e1men (Stolperstein) p\u0159ipom\u00ednaj\u00edc\u00ed pr\u00e1vn\u00edka JUDr. Hanu\u0161e (Hanse) Polacha. Hanu\u0161 Polach se narodil roku 1899 ve V\u00eddni. Vystudoval pr\u00e1vnickou fakultu N\u011bmeck\u00e9 univerzity v Praze a zde tak\u00e9 n\u00e1sledn\u011b p\u016fsobil jako advok\u00e1tn\u00ed koncipient. Pozd\u011bji pracoval jako pr\u00e1vn\u00edk penzijn\u00ed poji\u0161\u0165ovny. Se svou man\u017eelkou Elisabeth, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stolpersteine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spolek.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spolek.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spolek.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spolek.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spolek.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.spolek.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/www.spolek.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spolek.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spolek.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spolek.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spolek.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}