Group picture with the Memorial Sign for Hermine Bernheimer

Memorial Signs for Hermine Bernheimer, Hermann Binswanger, Minna Hirschberg, and Erna and Friedrich Marx,
Prinzregentenstraße 3

31.03.2025 10:00 a.m.

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Group picture at the Bavarian National Museum

On 31 March 2025 a commemorative event for Hermine Bernheimer, Hermann Binswanger, Minna Hirschberg, and Erna and Friedrich Marx was held at the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum at Prinzregentenstraße 3. Afterwards, the Memorial Signs were placed at their former places of residence.

Monday, 31 March 2025
10:00 am
Commemorative event at the Bavarian National Museum
Prinzregentenstraße 3

Dr Frank Matthias Kammel, Director General of the Bavarian National Museum
Minister of State Christian Bernreiter, MdL, Bavarian State Ministry for Housing, Building and Transport
Dieter Reiter, Lord Mayor of the City of Munich
Dr h.c. mult. Charlotte Knobloch, President of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria
Dr Matthias Weniger, Bavarian National Museum
Anna Maria Abernathy for the Hirschberg/Marx family
Ellen Kandell as a relative for Hermine Bernheimer
Merilyn Moos as a relative for Hermann Binswanger

Monday, 31 March 2025, approx. 11:30 am
Installation of the Memorial Sign for Minna Hirschberg at Franz-Josef-Strauß-Ring 4
• Dr Andrea Stadler-Bachmair, District Committee Altstadt Lehel

Monday, 31 March 2025, approx. 2:00 pm
Installation of the Memorial Sign for Hermine Bernheimer in Herzog-Max-Straße
• Dr Andrea Stadler-Bachmair, Altstadt-Lehel district committee

Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 10:00 am
Installation of the Memorial Sign for Hermann Binswanger at Schubertstraße 8
• Dr Barbara Turczynski-Hartje, Ludwigvorstadt-Isarvorstadt district committee

Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 3:00 pm
Installation of the Memorial Signs for Erna and Friedrich Siegmund Marx at Geibelstraße 8
• Florian Ring, Bogenhausen district committee

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Commemorative event at the Bavarian National Museum

Dieter Reiter, Lord Mayor of the City of Munich

Talya Lador-Fresher, Consul General of the State of Israel for Southern Germany

Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter and Dr h.c. mult. Charlotte Knobloch

Dr James Miller, Consul General of the USA for Munich

Anna Maria Abernathy for the Hirschberg/Marx family

Naomi Karp, Ellen Kandell, and other relatives

Ellen Kandell, relative of Hermine Bernheimer

Merilyn Moos, relative of Hermann Binswanger

Commemorative event for Hermine Bernheimer, Hermann Binswanger, Minna Hirschberg, and Erna and Friedrich Marx

Dr h.c. mult. Charlotte Knobloch, President of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria

Christian Bernreiter, Member of the Bavarian Parliament and Bavarian State Minister for Housing, Construction and Transport

Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter, Naomi Karp and Ellen Kandell, Dr h.c. mult. Charlotte Knobloch and Christian Bernreiter, Minister of State for Housing, Building and Transport

Dr Matthias Weniger, Bavarian National Museum

Simon Japha on the accordion

Guests and speakers at the commemorative event

Exhibition as part of the commemorative event

Exhibition of looted property

Group photo after the memorial service for Hermine Bernheimer, Hermann Binswanger, Minna Hirschberg, and Erna and Friedrich Marx

Memorial Sign for Minna Hirschberg

Franz-Josef-Strauß-Ring 4

Minna Hirschberg had married the merchant Adolf Hirschberg in Nuremberg in 1887. The couple had two children. After the death of her husband, Minna Hirschberg moved to Munich with her children in 1926. Her son Fritz Hirschberg was able to emigrate to the USA. Minna Hirschberg was forced to move several times and finally lived in the Jewish retirement home in Kaulbachstraße from 1940. From there, the Gestapo deported her to the Theresienstadt ghetto, where Minna Hirschberg was murdered in 1942.

Priv.-Doz. Dr Karin Schnebel, Altstadt-Lehel District Committee

Anna Maria Abernathy shows the Memorial Sign for Minna Hirschberg

Anna Maria Abernathy speaks for the relatives of the Hirschberg/Marx family

Installation of the Memorial Sign for Minna Hirschberg

Relatives and guests in front of the Memorial Sign for Minna Hirschberg

Memorial Sign for Minna Hirschberg

Memorial Signs at Franz-Josef-Strauß-Ring 4

Memorial Sign for Hermine Bernheimer

Herzog-Max-Straße

Hermine Bernheimer was born in Göppingen in 1870. In 1929, she moved to Munich to live with her widowed sister Rosa Frei. They lived right next door to the main synagogue. Due to the demolition of the main synagogue in 1938, they were forced to move several times before the Gestapo finally crammed them into the ‘Milbertshofen Jewish Settlement’. In 1943, they were deported to Theresienstadt, where Hermine Bernheimer was murdered a few weeks later. Rosa Frei arrived in Switzerland in February 1945 on an exchange transport, where she died in 1946.

Memorial stone for the main synagogue on Lenbachplatz, corner of Herzog-Max-Straße, demolished by the Nazis in 1938

Naomi Karp, Ellen Kandell, and other relatives show the Memorial Sign for Hermine Bernheimer

Naomi Karp and Ellen Kandell, relatives of Hermine Bernheimer

Ilga Fink on behalf of the Altstadt-Lehel district committee

Relatives show a picture of Hermine Bernheimer

Relatives with the Memorial Sign for Hermine Bernheimer

Relatives of Hermine Bernheimer

Gruppenbild mit dem Erinnerungszeichen

Memorial Sign for Hermine Bernheimer

Memorial Sign for Hermann Binswanger

Schubertstraße 8

Hermann Binswanger ran a liqueur factory in Augsburg, where he married Rosa Moos in 1890. The couple moved to Munich in 1906 and lived in Schubertstraße. Rosa Binswanger died in 1936. In 1939, Hermann Binswanger's liqueur factory was expropriated, he himself had to move several times and finally had to live in the so-called ‘Jews' house’ in Goethestrasse. In 1942, the Gestapo deported him to the Theresienstadt ghetto, where Hermann Binswanger was murdered at the beginning of 1943.

Merilyn Moos, relative of Hermann Binswanger

Benoît Blaser, Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt district committee

Guests watching the installation of the Memorial Sign

Dr. Barbara Turczynski-Hartje, Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt district committee

Merilyn Moos installs the Memorial Sign

Guests in front of Schubertstraße 8

Prof Mara Facio, Merilyn Moos and another relative of Hermann Binswanger

Relatives and guests in front of the Memorial Sign for Hermann Binswanger

Memorial Sign for Hermann Binswanger

Memorial Signs for Erna and Friedrich Siegmund Marx

Geibelstraße 8

Minna Hirschberg's daughter Erna married the merchant Friedrich Siegmund Marx in 1919. The couple lived in Munich with their two children. The children were able to emigrate to England and the USA after the National Socialists came to power. Erna and Friedrich Siegmund Marx were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto by the Gestapo in 1942. Friedrich Marx was murdered there a few months later. Erna Marx was deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz in 1944 and murdered there.