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While Richard Weinstein survived the war in the so-called Shanghai Ghetto, established after the Japanese occupation of the city, his wife and children were deported to the Terezín ghetto and from there to Auschwitz-Birkenau. All three miraculously survived, and the family was reunited a year after the war.

Dr. Richard Weinstein's ID card from the Shanghai Ghetto. Family Archives / Collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague

The Weinsteins decided to stay in Czechoslovakia, but Hanuš chose to change his name.


Why do you think Hanuš changed his last name from Weinstein to Hron?

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