The store in Dělnická Street No. 5

The hiding place of three Jewish fugitives in the spring of 1945 · Dělnická 5, 170 00 Prague 7, Czech Republic

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We were hiding for two months

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In the autumn of 1944, the Nazis began to transfer prisoners from Auschwitz to other camps because the Russian front line was coming closer and closer. When they were being transporting in March 1945, three prisoners decided to jump on a train with coal in Litoměřice which went to the train station Prague - Bubny. They jumped in a railway car and hid in the coal. They were found by Mr. Sobotka, who brought them clothes and took them to his home. The family of Mr. Sobotka took the fugitives to a shop in Dělnická Street No. 5, where they then were hiding for almost two months. For their participating in the Prague Uprising, the three men received Czechoslovak citizenship. Avraham Harshalom decided to remain in Czechoslovakia after the war and thanks to a scholarship he was able to study electrical engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague.

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Avraham Harshalom

Avraham Harshalom was born as Adam (Abraham) Friedberg in Pruzhany in today's Belarus in 1925. Yiddish was his mother tongue; he spoke Polish and Russian as well, and studied at a Hebrew secondary school. He was deported to Auschwitz along with his parents and brother in February 1943. Unlike his parents, he survived the selection process at Auschwitz and worked with various work divisions, (commandos). He attempted to escape in June 1944 and was included in the penal work division. He was deported to the camps in Crawinkel, Ohrdruf, and Buchenwald in October 1944. In the tumult of the final months of the war in Buchenwald, he claimed being Polish, and together with two other prisoners he escaped from a transport in Litoměřice in March 1945. They got to Prague on a freight train; the Sobotka family from Holešovice saved them. They spent two months hiding in a closed shop in Dělnická Street. He participated in the Prague Uprising in May 1945, obtained Czechoslovak nationality, and studied the Czech Technical University in Prague after the war. He enrolled in air force training for Israel in 1948. He has been living in Israel since 1949; he served in the army, (air force), until 1950. Afterwards, he started his business - the successful Ariel holding, (production of electronic components).

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The store in Dělnická Street No. 5

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The store with flowers and the adjacent storehouse in the Dělnická Street in Prague Holešovice, which had been shut down by the end of the war, was owned by Mr. Hrstka. Mr. Hrstka was a good friend of the Sobotka family who hid three Jewish fugitives from a transport at the Prague-Bubny train station. Presently, a branch office of the Česká pojišťovna insurance company is located in these premises.

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We were hiding for two months

Avraham Harshalom