Otto's son Jan was deported to the ghetto in Lodz in occupied Poland in October 1941, there his trace is lost.
Otto, his wife Berta and daughter Marianna were deported from the emergency dormitory of the Jewish community in Prague to the ghetto in Terezín, from where they left after six months on a deportation transport allegedly headed for the SS training camp in Trawniki. It is possible that they were taken off the train to one of the smaller ghettos in the area, but it is more likely that the actual destination of the transport was the Sobibór death camp. Of the thousand people in the AAk transport that deported them from Terezín, none survived.
While photographs of Otto and Marianne have been preserved, the appearance of Berta is unknown.
Source of portrait photographs: National archive, Police directorate Praha II, 1931 – 1940, sign. K 4353/44, kart. 7962, K 4357/17, kart. 7963, digitized by the Terezín Initiative Institute as part of the Terezín Album project.
In October 1938, the villa was taken over by the mayor of Ústí nad Labem, Dr. Richard Tauche. From May 1941, the villa was the property of the German Reich, and in June 1944 it was transferred to the city. After the war, the villa was taken over by a municipal enterprise, later the Housing Enterprise of the City of Ústí nad Labem. In February 1980, the villa was demolished as part of a large-scale modernization of the area. The blasting took place on Saturday, February 23, 1980 at 1 p.m. 19 buildings were destroyed at once, which is the largest blasting in the Czech Republic to date.
The last stop of the IWalk is the location of the post-war Ústí nad Labem synagogue on Moskevská Street.