Stránský Bedřich, JUDr.

Collection description

Scope and content:: The fonds contains personal documents, material relating to the Kornfeld–Stránský law office, financial material, material relating to family members, varia.

Archival history:: The material was transferred from the Shoah History Department of the Jewish Museum in Prague in 2013.

Administrative/biographical history:: Bedřich Stránský was born in Prague on 28 February 1888, the son of a factory owner. He graduated in law from the German Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague in 1911. He moved to Most in 1912, where he completed his traineeship and worked as an independent lawyer from 1920 until October 1938, when he was forced to close down his law practice. He lived in Prague from March 1939. His entire family was deported to the Terezín ghetto (Transport Am) on 24 April 1942 and to Auschwitz (Transport Dr) on 15 December 1943. His wife Lisa was the only one in his family to survive.

Subject terms:: Financial records; Legal matters; Personal records; Professions; Professions--Lawyers

Finding aids:: Hanková M: Bedřich Stránský (1888–1943), JUDr., Inventář, 2014, 5 s., AP č. 336