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About Wilhelmine Pollak
Birth record: MOST (o. Most) 1300 N 1845-1872 (70/103)
Villi met Jakub through her brother Max LOEBL who was three years older than her. The family story is that Max and Jakub met on a train. In fact Max employed Jakub in his shop in na porici 6 in Prague. Jakub and his wife helped Max when his first wife suddenly died in childbirth at a very young age in 1890 and left him with three children including the new born. She married Jakub in Usti nad Labem 1887 at House of Austria and they lived at Celetna 553 / 2 until 1899. Their three children Irma, Viktor and Hans Walter were born there. Jakub and Wilhelmine established their first business in that building before they moved across the road and bought Celetna 9 which is where the family business was developed using Villi's large dowry. After the children she didn't work in the business so much. In 1909 she and Jacob lived at #1068 Niklassstrasse which was part of the slum clearance in Josefov as it was in the ghetto. In WW1 Hans Walter her youngest died working as a medical orderly or ambulance driver. He enlisted in 1915 and was a medical student at Charles University at the end of his first year of study. Villi never got over her grief. According to research by Julius MUELLER Jakub lived in Zlaticka 1122/11 from 24 Aug 1887. From 9 Dec. 1887 he moved to Celetna 553/2. From 1899 he and his wife and their three small children Irma, Victor and Hans Walter moved to a house on the intersection of Siroka and Maislova. That house no longer stands. From 1909 they lived in a house in Parizska 1068/10 and from 1913 at the back of that same address.
Her parents Franziska and Judah LOEBL married in 1854 but I don't know where. They lived in Bruex (Cz Most) though Villi's birth was registered in Zatec ( Saaz).
Villi's mother Franziska died in 1913 in Teplice. Villi was 48 when her mother died. Her older brother Karl died 1925 and was active in the Tempel in Bruex. see his obit. He was the treasurer of the Teplice synagogue and the Vorsteher which means the leader of the community. In his obituary Wilhelmine is listed as Minna Pollak from Prague. The obit shows the family was religious.Her siblings remained in the area of Brux in Teplice and Bodenbach which became part of Decin. Vili and Max moved away from their home town, Vili to Prague and Max to Veinna and previously Prague.
Jacob her husband bought their summer house in Zelizy and called it Villa Helena for his wife. Their granddaughter Hanna Wiener said they didn't want to be in Prague in the hot summer weather. Irma her daughter bought the land next door to the villa. They grew huge strawberries there. She remembers eating a lot of strawberries with my mother Mimi.
Nearby were the WAJMAN family's summer house. They were wealthy coal miners and they played tennis with them. Sometimes they drove to the Elbe to Melnik the nearest large town to swim in the river. The ADLER family owned a house across the road.
Wilhelmine left the Jewish religion in 1932 three years before she died at Zelizy [Ger: Schelesen] the summer house named for her Villa Helene. Her daughter and son had already left the Jewish faith in the 1920's. That caused ructions between Vii and her daughter for at least 12 months I was told. When her son Victor bought his summer holiday house at the German beach resort of Binz auf Ruegen he named it Villa Helene after his adored mother. Victor went into a manufacturing business with Oskar FRANKL the son of Villi's older sister Charlotte in Meissen Germany where they made umbrellas gloves and walking sticks which Victor sold in his shop in Celetna Firma Vigo. That business was not a success and Victor sold out so it was fairly short lived.
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