Salomon (Samuel) Löwy

The Löwy family came from Puchov in Slovakia. The eldest brother Salomon started his business in 1913 in a shoe shop in Žďár, no. 86. He married Frantiska Stern. They had two sons, Jiří and Pavel. The Arco company was founded in 1920 and built a factory in Žďár No. 464. The co-owners of the company were siblings Salomon, Alexander, Desider and Lenka. In 1923, 400 employees (100 permanent) worked for the company. It had branch plants in Brtnice and Moravské Budějovice. In 1926 the company moved from Žďár to Jihlava. Later the Salomon family moved to Prague. During the war they were deported to Terezín and all family members died in Zamošč.

Alexander, after the Arco company moved to Jihlava, acquired a factory in the town of Žďár at no. 464. He married Aranka Weinreb. They had two children, Ivan and Helga. Alexander started his own business in 1928. He named the company after his daughter. The Helga shoe company produced ladies' haberdashery shoes. In 1929 the company was sold to Karl Lengsfeld. The Alexander family moved to Prague. Alexander and Aranka ran their own business there. During the war the family was deported to Terezín. All members of the family perished in Zamosc. 

Desider was co-owner of the shoe company Arco. He kept the company's books. He lived in Brtnice and commuted to Žďár. Later he worked for the Helga company. He married Lilly. They probably had no children. The family moved to Jihlava and then to Prague. From there she was deported to Terezín during the war. Both spouses died in Ujazdow

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Nádražní Street, in the section from the circle
crossroads to the Czech Post Office,
will receive an unusual
unveiling of the Stones of
disappeared.
� Lenka Kopčáková
With the participation of the highest representatives of the
Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic to the
the unveiling of the first of the entire
18 Stones of the Disappeared. Nárož-
the house by the park (now with ground floor
shops) once belonged to a Jewish
Lengsfeld family, who
had a shoe manufacturing business here.
In 1942, before the transport of the
to the concentration camps,
the Germans concentrated other
Jewish families from the Žďár and South
Jędrzejsko. The Nazis were in their records
so thorough that a record was left,
what room dimensions of which family's rooms
occupied.
A total of 18 Stones of the Disappeared,
placed successively in the center, at-
the members of the Lengsfeld family,
Böhm, Kohner, Deutsch.
and Löwy.
On the granite tiles will be
will be set with plaques bearing the names of these li-
including dates of birth and death.
The stones are for Jewish cultural
symbolic for the Jewish culture. The stone is said
Hebrew for "even," an expression that
that combines two words - "af" and "ben"
or father and son. The stone thus symbolizes
symbolizes the continuity of generations. It also
explains why the Jews put their graves
on their graves, not flowers.
By searching for the Jewish stones of Žďár.
families has been working for many years
local native Vít Koudela. Occasionally
we meet in the research room of the district
archives, where he digs through old le-
and newspapers.
As he says, some Jewish families
have lived here for centuries, the oldest families
were associated with the distillery that stood
on the site of today's House of Culture.
At the beginning of the Second World War, the
Žďár had less than fifty inhabitants
of Jewish nationality, most of the families
came here at the end of the 19th century.
more Jews lived in Zám-
Žďár. In the place of today's enterprise
Tokoz was a match factory,
founded by a Jew named Rafael Hochner
in 1855. Otherwise, he had a shop
a cutlery shop in the Castle of Žďá-
... He had a lot to show for it, he was the father of 13
children.
He's been searching for years
for the missing
City Hall as part of this year's 75th
anniversary of the end of World War II at-
the memory of a missing Jewish family...
by placing the Stones of the Disappeared.
"When my granddaughter came here from Israel last year.
Lengsfeld's granddaughter Alizi Mizrachi and
saw the original stones, she was
a big heartfelt thing for her," she said.
Vít Koudela.
During the commemorative event on 20 September
The people of Zdar will commemorate the inhabitants of
of the corner house by the park, the parents of
brothers Karel and Jindřich Lengs-
feld and the Böhm family
from Jihlava, who came here in 1941
from Jihlava in 1941 before the transport.
Jihlava.
Vít Koudela after the Jews of Žďár.
has been searching for Jewish families for 11 years.
He became acquainted with Jewish culture
while working for an Israeli company.
"Gradually I found out that Jewish
about the Jewish population in Zdar.
...yet they lived intertwined with the city.
The staff of the Regional Museum
We have been cooperating for a long time, solving and
and discover new interesting things," he added.
Koudela adds. He himself has already been involved in
has contributed to five historical publications
in the area.
"It's a special feeling when you discover
what these people looked like, you get to know their
stories, and also how welcoming they were to you.
They were so welcoming to their employees," he said.
the researcher says.
He finds it a challenge to almost out of the blue.
to piece together the stories of real people.
Because as the documents emerge,
they pile on top of each other.
...and then another.
They had some
some of the highest salaries
Vít Koudela gives the example of Lengs-
felds. As he says, the shoe industry here
used to be the most widespread trade.
However, Žďár was also nicknamed the month of
of shoemakers. The corner house on the corner
Nádražní and Sadová streets was kept by
a shoemaker to build a house in the early 1920s
Salomon Löwy from Jihlava. He got
the handwriting of the renowned builder Jose-
fa Křelina. The company called Arco
became very successful, and before Löwy
in 1926, he transferred it back to Jihlava,
it employed 200 people from the Žďár region
and Moravian-Budejovice.
In 1929 he bought the building from him.
from the building, Jewish businessman Karel Leng-
sfeld from Humpolec. He too was a well-known
shoemaker and completed the building with a residential
the first floor, where the Lengsfelds lived.
and had offices. Workshops and storage rooms
remained in the basement. The business had
branches in three other locations
Highlands. Lengsfeld produced the main
baganchas, half-high boots and
waterproof boots made of jute.
"The company was run by brothers Karel and Jindřich
and had about 60 employees, 30 of whom
and some worked from home. After
in terms of turnover, it was one of the largest firms...
I have in Žďár," says Vít Koudela with
adding that the Lengsfelds employed
Lengsfeld's employees had some of the highest salaries
in the town.
"In Karl Lengsfeld's workshop, women
sang while they worked. When he walked by, he was
...happy. He knew he was the one singing while he worked,
...who was at ease," the researcher said.
Jindřich was active in Prague as a
as a sales representative and Karel was in charge
production in Žďár and arranged for the
He was also the head of the company.
But then the company was "arized". This
It means that it came under the occupation
administration.
For the execution
of his son, he had to pay
Vít Koudela has been collecting
has been collecting photographs of members of the local Jewish
of Jewish families. "The photos of the Lengsfelds
of Lengsberg's wives have not survived, but I have
pictures of both of his daughters who survived
Karl Jakob Lengsfeld

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Born 27. 12. 1888

Last residence before deportation: Prague II

Address/place of registration in the Protectorate: Prague II, Na Výtoni 9

Transport Ao, no. 678 (28. 04. 1942, Prague -> Terezín)

Transport As, no. 678 (30. 04. 1942, Terezín -> Zamošč)

Murdered

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ŠALOMON LÖWY

• Born 27. 12. 1888
• Last residence before deportation: Prague II
• Address/place of registration in the Protectorate: Prague II, Na Výtoni 9
• Transport Ao, no. 678 (28. 04. 1942, Prague -> Terezín)
• Transport As, no. 678 (30. 04. 1942, Terezín -> Zamošč)
• Murdered