In July 1939, a new official institution was established in Prague called The Central Office for Jewish Emigration. It was founded by the SS man Adolf Eichmann, who settled in Prague and opened his new office in a confiscated villa not far from the Strešovice villa which he had confiscated for himself as Jewish property. At first, it was really a search for the possibility of eviction in exchange for leaving behind most of the property, but gradually the word "emigration" took on the meaning of "deportation". Deportation to death.
Two days before the first deportation transport left Prague, the Treuhandstelle, an organisation in charge of managing the property of the deportees, was established. In August 1942, the Central Office for Jewish Emigration itself was renamed the Central Office for the Solution of the Jewish Question in Bohemia and Moravia. Its work was organizing the genocide, the mass murder of all persons identified as Jews.
Some institutions attempting to continue the emigration continued to function temporarily, but the buildings connected with the life of Prague Jews gradually turned into Treuhandstelle warehouses, filled with the stolen property of the murdered.
This was no different with the premises of the Aschermann café. Its owner, Mr. Armin Radó, was murdered with his entire family in the Sobibor death camp.
The premises of the Aschermann Café used as a warehouse for deportees' crockery. Archive of the Jewish Museum in Prague.