Phil. Dr. Rabbi Otokar Kraus

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Otokar (Otakar) Kraus

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Luštěnice 63, Luštěnice, Mladá Boleslav District, Central Bohemian Region, Czechia (Czech Republic)
Death: October 28, 1944 (66)
Death Camp, Oswiecim, Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland (Perished in Shoah)
Immediate Family:

Son of Hynek Ignaz Kraus and Anna Kraus
Husband of Paula Kraus
Father of Zdeňka Sommer and Ernst /Arnošt Kraus
Brother of Olga Kraus; Arnold /Ernst Kraus; Zdenka Budlovsky and Hedvika Frank
Half brother of Prof. Dr. Vlastimil Vítězslav Kraus and Julius Kraus

Managed by: Martin Čakrt
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About Phil. Dr. Rabbi Otokar Kraus

https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000141868664286
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~prohel/names/misc...

From YadVashem: Rabbi Otokar Kraus was born in Benesov, Czechoslovakia. He was married. Prior to WWII he lived in Prague, Czechoslovakia. During the war he was in Terezin, Czechoslovakia.Rabbi Kraus was murdered/perished in 1942 in Auschwitz, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (signed PDF) (displayed on left) submitted by his grandson.

Other information from "University over the Abyss: List of Lecturers in Ghetto Theresienstadt" http://www.makarovainit.com/list.htm. Date of death does not coincide with that listed in YadVashem. ~jb

https://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-victims/victim/102975-otaka...


  • Born 09. 04. 1878
  • Last residence before deportation: Prague V
  • Address/place of registration in the Protectorate: Prague V, Elišky Krásnohorské 17
  • Transport De, no. 381 (05. 07. 1943, Prague -> Terezín)
  • Transport Ev, no. 1007 (28. 10. 1944, Terezín -> Auschwitz)
  • Murdered
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Phil. Dr. Rabbi Otokar Kraus's Timeline

1878
April 9, 1878
Luštěnice 63, Luštěnice, Mladá Boleslav District, Central Bohemian Region, Czechia (Czech Republic)
1906
May 30, 1906
House No. 39, Benešov, Bohemia, Czech Republic
1908
June 21, 1908
Benesov, Benešov, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic
1944
October 28, 1944
Age 66
Death Camp, Oswiecim, Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland