From here, the nearly 100-year-old Mrs. Wakler was deported.
The building was originally used as a Jewish old-age home and a soup kitchen for the poor, but in 1902 the main old-age home was moved to today's Štefánikova Street, and a hospital for the long-term sick was operated here on Mlýnská Street.
Since 1941, the Jewish community in Brno has managed three old-age homes with a total of 140 residents, an orphanage with 35 inmates and a newly established hospital with 25 residents. With the beginning of the deportations, the old-age homes and the orphanage were closed down, leaving only the hospital, where persons incapable of transport were temporarily transported. This was to create the perception that the deportees were really leaving to build some new Jewish settlements somewhere "in the East".
In the photo you can see what the building looked like at the beginning of 1941.
Why did the Nazis want to create the impression that deportations of people identified as Jews did not mean deportations to death?