Johann / Jan Polach

[https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Polach]

[http://www.stillremember.com/pages/MemorialSite.asp?iTempIId=102 ] Johann Polach was born 16.5.1871

Johann was the eldest of six children, four boys and two girls. His father was a poor workman from a small village in Moravia. Since Johann was a talented student , he was sent to Vienna to attend the Schottenring gymnasium.

During his years at the university, he supported himself by giving private lessons. He became also very active in the rising Social-democratic party, both in Vienna and in Bruenn. With his new bride, Katharina Waller, he moved to Bruenn where he started teaching Latin and Greek at a high school. Three sons were born to them, Hans, Friedrich and Ernst-Benjamin. Friedrich died young, aged twenty.

Johann rose in the ranks of the Party and eventually was appointed Senator at the Czechoslovak Pariament. For several years Johann was actively involved in the political life, mainly in the field of education. He retired due to illness, in the mid-thirties.

When Hitler occupied Czechoslovakia, Johann and his family were persecuted for their Jewish origin and in 1942 deported to Ghetto Theresienstadt. In the terrible conditions he lived for just a few weeks, and died miserably in October 1942.

Death record: https://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-victims/victim/114335-jan-p...

• Born 16. 05. 1871
• Last residence before deportation: Prague V
• Address/place of registration in the Protectorate: Prague V, Kostečná 3
• Transport AAq, no. 892 (13. 07. 1942, Prague -> Terezín)
• Murdered 16. 11. 1942 Terezín

Testimony: https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDetails.html?language=en&itemId=825597

• Johann Yokhanan Polach polak was born in Gros, Romania in 1871 to Noakh. He was a teacher and married to Katerina nee Voler. Prior to WWII he lived in Prague, Czechoslovakia. During the war he was in Terezin, Czechoslovakia.
• Johann yokhanan was murdered in the Shoah.
• This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed here) submitted by his son, Beniamin Ernest Polak