Memorial Signs for Charlotte Carney, Berta Konn, Hermann Marx, Amalie Spitzauer, and Emma Wallach,
Franz-Josef-Strauß-Ring 4

On 4 October 2021, five Memorial Signs were placed on Franz-Josef-Strauss-Ring for former residents of Galeriestraße and Pilotystraße.

Berta Konn lived in Munich from 1901 with her husband Dr Adolf Konn and their son Ludwig Ignaz. After the death of her husband she lived in Galeriestrasse for some time, before moving to Vienna to live with her son in 1938. From there the Gestapo deported them to the Theresienstadt ghetto in August 1942. Berta Konn died there after a few months due to the catastrophic conditions. Her son Ludwig Ignaz Konn was deported by the SS from Theresienstadt to the Auschwitz concentration camp and from there to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was murdered in 1944.

Charlotte Carney came from Berlin and lived with her husband Paul Carney at Galeriestrasse 29 from 1932. She had passed the state examination for the teaching profession and had converted to the Protestant faith. Nevertheless, the National Socialists banned her from working as early as 1933 because of her Jewish origins. Her marriage ended in divorce in 1936, and in 1941 she was forced to move into the so-called ‘Heimanlage für Juden’ before the Gestapo deported her to Auschwitz in March 1943. The SS murdered Charlotte Carney there on 30 April 1943.

Hermann Marx had lived in England from 1908 and worked in the banking industry there before being deployed as a German soldier to Romania during the First World War. From 1935, he lived at Pilotystraße 7 in Munich, where he ran an agency for men's and women's hats. Hermann Marx suffered from an incurable autoimmune disease, from which he died in July 1940 in the Jewish Hospital in Hermann-Schmid-Straße. He was buried in the Neuer Israelitischer Friedhof in Munich.

Amalie Spitzauer worked as a dentist and lived at Pilotystraße 7, after the death of her husband, the dentist Dr Otto Spitzauer. Her son Otto Benjamin Spitzauer was arrested in November 1938 and deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was murdered in 1940. Amalie Spitzauer was deported to Kaunas by the Gestapo in November 1941 and murdered there by the SS just a few days after her arrival.

Emma Wallach was married to Julius Wallach, a co-founder of the Volkskunsthaus Wallach in Residenzstraße. After the marriage ended in divorce in 1927, she lived at Galeriestrasse 17. Emma Wallach was deported to Kaunas by the Gestapo in November 1941 and murdered there by the SS. Her three children Gertrud Hansen, Helmuth Wallach, and Hilde Kagan survived the Shoah abroad.