Zika ascher biography of martin luther
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Ben Uri Research Unit
Born:1910 Prague, Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic)
Died:1992 London, England
Year of Migration to the UK:1939
Other name/s: Zikmund Ascher
Biography
Textile designer and artist Zika (Zikmund) Ascher was born to Jewish parents in Prague, Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic) in 1910.
Zika ascher biography of martin luther
A talented skier, Ascher represented his country in downhill skiing in Hitler's Winter Olympics 1936 in Garmish-Partenkirchen and competed in three world championships in 1935, 1937, and 1938, when he won the Grand Prix. He was known as 'Šílený hedvábník' ('the Mad Silkman') on the slopes, a nod to his family's textile business.
In the 1930s Ascher and his brother Josef established their own textile business in central Prague. In 1938, he met Lida Tydlitatova when she entered the textile store and they married in 1939. Lida's mother was fiercely anti-Semitic and opposed to the couple, hence Ascher converted to Catholicism on 22 December 1938, two months before the