OUR FINDINGS
HOW OUR PROJECT STARTED
Everything has a beginning and an end. The Havlíčkův Brod Neighbors Who Disappeared project started as a piece of paper and eventually turned out as this website and a twenty-four page printed booklet. The few lines we had written on that piece of paper thanks to our teacher from the first meeting we had in a study room at the district library in Havlíčkův Brod soon became an unexpected amount of information and pictures.
Josef and Betta Pachner - a Jewish family, although probably atheist (must verify)
owners of No. 104 Dolní ulice since 1879 (now a pale blue house to the right when heading away from the town square)
owned a wholesale wine store and rum and herb liquor manufacture
7 children (only 3 sons known to date - Arnošt, Artur, František)
Arnošt, Artur and František attended the Německý Brod high school and studied medicine.
Arnošt - a doctor (dentist?) in Německý Brod, a victim of the holocaust
Artur - established a private doctor's office in Chrudim, a victim of the holocaust
František - doc. MUDr. František Pachner (1882-1964) - was the chief physician of the gynaecology and childbirth division of a hospital in Ostrava (which is now part of the local university) during the 1930's - he had great merit in the establishment of a new hospital in the 1920's; fought for the education of childbirth assistants (and wrote a textbook for that purpose); author of "Who is I. F. Semmelweis" (1948), "For the lives of mothers" (1959); it is unclear how he made it through the holocaust alive ???, he had a son named Petr (1913-1978), who was also a doctor
Míla Pachnerová (1904-?) - a writer of romantic novels for women - a member of the family???
These are the incomplete, unclear pieces of information with which we set out to search for the fate of the Havlíčkův Brod Pachner family members on July 2006