Group picture with the Memorial Signs for Elisabeth Heims and Alexander Dünkelsbühler

Memorial Signs for Elisabeth Heims and Alexander Dünkelsbühler,
Katharina-von-Bora-Straße 10

24.07.2020 02:00 p.m.

Veranstaltung

Ingrid Reuther, initiator of the Memorial Signs

Elisabeth Heims and Alexander Dünkelsbühler had already left the Jewish community before 1933, but both were persecuted as Jews during the Nazi era. Alexander Dünkelsbühler, a solicitor, ran a successful law firm in Munich, but lost more and more clients after 1933. After the racist Nuremberg Laws were passed, he saw no future for himself. In 1935, Alexander Dünkelsbühler committed suicide.

Elisabeth Heims then dissolved her partner's law firm, where she herself had worked for many years. In 1938, she joined the Quakers, helped Jews to emigrate and ran a small retirement home until the Nazis forced her to perform forced labour at the Lohhof flax roasting plant in 1941. In November 1941, the Gestapo deported Elisabeth Heims to Kaunas, where the SS shot her a few days later.

Friday, 24 July 2020
2 pm
Presentation of the Memorial Signs for Elisabeht Heims and Alexander Dünkelsbühler at their former residence
Katharina-von-Bora-Straße 10

Verena Dietl, Mayor of the City of Munich
Prof. Dr Michael Piazolo, Minister of State for Education and Culture
Ellen Presser, Director of the Cultural Centre of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria
Prof. Dr Ulrich Pfisterer, Director of the Central Institute for Art History
Ingrid Reuther, initiator of the Memorial Signs
Klaus-Peter Münch, Munich Memorial Workshop
Dr Eva Strauß, Munich Memorial Workshop
Doris Knaier, Quaker
Prof. Dr Clemens Cohen
Dr Mirjam Zadoff, Munich Documentation Centre for the History of the Nazi Era
Dr Svenja Jarchow, Maxvorstadt District Committee