Historical records matching Jakub Pollak
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About Jakub Pollak
According to Hanna WIENER his granddaughter Jakub loved Schweinbraten so it seems he was not very religious even though his father was a Rabbi and Hebrew teacher!. With his son Victor he founded Firma Vigo the family business which owned a large shop in Celetna 9. The business is listed in the Prager Zeitung (Amtsblatt) on Sat May 1904. It is firm# 2088 and address is house number 553 Celetna (Celetna 2) which is where he lived with Wilhelmine and Irma and Victor and Hans. Name of firm was Jakob POLLAK Handel mit Wirkwaren. It was entered into the business register on 21 May 1904. By 1929 the firm is at Celetna 9. 6/8/1913 Viktor is named as Prokurist for Firma Vigo. (Representative and buyer) His granddaughter Hanna Wiener told me that Jacob sold buttons for the army uniforms and that's how he made a lot of his money early on. He had his office at the back of the shop on the Stupartska side. You could walk through from Celetna then. According to his favorite grandchild Kurt Metzker all Jakub's 8 siblings -all female -died before the war and his older brother Wolf ages before that.
Death data: http://www2.holocaust.cz/en/victims/PERSON.ITI.1730730
Born 27. 05. 1861 last residence before deportation: Prague, I address/place of registration in the Protectorate: Prague I, Benediktská 6 Transport AAq, č. 894 (13.07.1942 Prague -> Terezín) Murdered 31. 07. 1942 Terezín The family story is that he dropped dead in the street at Terezin. I expect it was hunger that killed him. He was in the camp just over two weeks before he died.There were 949 people on that transport but only 52 survived.
His favorite grandchild was Kurt Metzker the oldest son of Irma his daughter. Kurt did an interview with Tomi Poetsch in Austria in 1981. Kurt told Tomi that Jakub was apprenticed to his older brother Wolf Pollak who owned a leather goods shop in Plzen. His family was very poor said Kurt. Jakub was youngest and he was short and physically weak. He left Wolf's house in Plzen and moved to Prague to work for his future brother in law Max Loebl. Loebl's firm was called Loebl and Oesterreicher at na porici 6 in Praha 1- a leather goods shop. Max introduced Jakub to his sister Wilhelmine and offered him a dowry of 10,000 Kronen but only paid him half that. Jakub rented a room in Celetna 2 and put a red curtain down the middle because he only had enough goods to fill one half of the shop. This was in 1886. Grandmother Wilhelmine and he were the only workers then. The business went well and it was in a favorable central location Fashons then were for shoe bands- could have been spats. He was able to rent the shop next door and take on more staff and expand. After Irma was born in 1888 Wilhelmine stopped working in the shop. They were a wealthy Jewish family up until WW2. I found evidence in the National Library that they frequented Karlovy Vary for holidays as well as Bolzano in Italy. Jakub's passports are in the National Archives. See holocaust.cz. On one of the three passports in the National Archives Jacob says his parents were Itzhak and Alzbeta Hechtova. But his birth record in Biestin says his mother was Elisabeth POLLAK. This requires further investigation. another passport no date describes his hair as chestnut colour. In 1891 Jacob wrote to the Governor of Prague complaining that the Municipal Adminsitration authority wanted to fine him five florins for failing to register two staff members. One of them was his sister Eleanore POLLAK. He claimed she was in the shop merely for her own pleasure and was now working there with no payment. Victor his son later employed Ignaz Fuchs however. Fuchs was the grandfather of his wife Olga Pohnert.
Marriage record: ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM (o. Ústí nad Labem) 2280 O 1870-1918 (40/146)
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