Memorial Sign for Elisabeth Baerlein,
Wasserburger Landstraße 209

The musically gifted Elisabeth Baerlein lived with her parents at Wasserburger Landstraße 209, where her parents owned an inn. She began studying violin with Kurt Huber at the age of 16. With a Jewish father and a mother who had converted to Judaism, she was considered Jewish under the racist laws of the National Socialists and was forced to abandon her studies at the Academy of Music in 1936. In 1938, her father was deported to the Dachau concentration camp, where he was forced to sell his property.

Elisabeth Baerlein tried in vain to emigrate to Shanghai. In June 1942, the Gestapo deported Elisabeth Baerlein to the Theresienstadt ghetto, where she played in several orchestras that were supposed to give the illusion of a ‘normal life.’ In October 1944, the SS deported her to the Auschwitz extermination camp, where she was murdered a few days later.