Group picture with the Memorial Signs at St-Anna-Platz
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Memorial Signs for Students of Lyzeum am St.-Anna-Platz,
St.-Anna-Straße 20

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Commemoration St-Anna-Platz

Lotte Schwarzschild was a student at the Lyceum on St. Anna Square until, at the age of 16, she was forced to leave school and perform forced labour at the Lohhof flax factory. In 1942, the Gestapo deported Lotte Schwarzschild to Piaski. Neither the circumstances nor the exact date of her death are known. Her parents, Mina and Moritz Schwarzschild, were deported to Theresienstadt and from there to Auschwitz, where they were murdered.

Rita Stark was also a student at St. Anna Square. After her mother Lina Stark died in Munich in June 1941, Rita Stark was deported with her brother Michael Günther and her father Josef Stark by the Gestapo to Kaunas in November 1941, where they were murdered by the SS.

Ruth Wilmersdörfer attended the Lyceum at St. Anna Square for three years. Her parents tried in vain to emigrate to the USA, and an attempt to save Ruth with a Kindertransport was also unsuccessful. In November 1941, the Gestapo deported Ruth Wilmersdörfer together with her parents Siegbert and Frieda Luzie Wilmersdörfer to Kaunas, where they were shot by the SS.

Tuesday, 29 June 2025
2 pm
Commemorative event at Städtisches St.-Anna-Gymnasium
St.-Anna-Straße 20

  • Mayor Katrin Habenschaden
  • City School Superintendent Florian Kraus
  • Susanne Sütsch, Head of St. Anna Municipal Grammar School
  • Lucia Rossa, Elena Geimer and Elisabeth Kaiser, pupils at St. Anna Municipal Grammar School, read the biographies of Lotte Schwarzschild, Rita Stark, and Ruth Wilmersdörfer
  • Andrea Stadler-Bachmaier, Altstadt-Lehel District Committee

2:50 pm
Installation of the Memorial Signs, St.-Anna-Gymnasium, Liebigstraße entrance

  • Mayor Katrin Habenschaden
  • Susanne Sütsch
  • Students of the Städtisches St.-Anna-Gymnasium
  • Edith Römer, relative of Ruth Wilmersdörfer
  • Rabbi Dr Tom Kucera, Liberal Jewish Community Beth Shalom
  • Cantor Nikola David, Liberal Jewish Community Beth Shalom

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Installation of the Memorial Signs for Lotte Schwarzschild, Rita Stark, and Ruth Wilmersdörfer

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Press:

Jüdische Allgemeine

Images: Tom Hauzenberger

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