Rabbi Albert Schön was born in Moravská Ostrava in 1913, his father Leopold came from Uherský Brod, his mother Tereza from Veselí nad Moravou.
He studied at the rabbinical seminary in Wroclaw and after his studies worked as a rabbi in Prostějov. Shortly after the occupation he was arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp. After his release, he moved to Brno, where he was in charge of social work and education of young people considering emigration. Later he was appointed the Chief rabbi of Brno.
In March 1942 he was deported by the Af transport to the ghetto in Terezín. Shortly after his arrival, he was appointed one of the members of the rabbinical court in the ghetto, together with another Brno rabbi, Dr. Zikmund Unger, and the rabbi of Pilsen, Erich Weiner. In addition to lecturing, keeping registers and organizing funerals, he also married other young couples in Terezín.
He was deported from the Terezín ghetto on 29 September 1944 to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, where he was apparently murdered, although according to some accounts he did not die until the death march in March 1945. His wife Eva from Pohořelice was also murdered. His parents lived to see the liberation of Terezín, and after the war they settled in the Israeli town of Kfar Saba with their second son Kurt.
The photograph is from the website of Maud Michal Beer's book What the Fire Didn't Burn