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Lustigová Hedvika

Source: Národní archiv Praha, Policejní ředitelství v Praze – všeobecná spisovna, 1931-1940, sign. L 2910/7

* 16. 2. 1896
Ba 1148 – 10. 8. 1942 Terezín
Dr 1355 – 15. 12. 1943, Auschwitz
liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Hedvika Lustigová was born in Úštěk to Albert Bloch and Adéla Bloch, née Adlerová. In October 1919 she married the Prague merchant Rudolf Lustig (* 1888) in Česká Lípa. After the wedding the couple lived in Prague – first in the district of Vinohrady and later in Karlín. Their marriage remained childless.

Hedvika Lustigová frequently accompanied her husband on trips abroad – not only on business, but also for health reasons or recreation.

Rudolf Lustig died on 29 June 1943 in Terezín, where he had been transported (transport number Ba 1149) in August 1942. His wife managed to survive internment at the family camp in Brzezinka (Birkenau) and the concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen, where she was liberated in 1945.

After returning home to Czechoslovakia, she eventually emigrated to Southern Rhodesia in 1946. She requested the Czechoslovak authorities to retain her citizenship under Section 2 of Constitutional Decree no. 33/45 of the President of the Republic. The Interior Ministry granted this request on 18 February 1948. Unfortunately no details of her subsequent life in Africa are available.

Her surviving property includes a glass candelabrum (at the chateau in Zákupy) and a glass cup with a lid as well as a glass sugar pot (at Sychrov). A porcelain figurine belonging to her was stolen from the Sychrov chateau.

Source: Národní archiv Praha, Policejní ředitelství v Praze – všeobecná spisovna, 1931-1940, sign. L 2910/7