Memorial Signs for Fanny Gross, Klara Grüner, and Julie and Ludwig Löwenthal,
Gärtnerplatz 3

23.03.2023 01:30 p.m.

Veranstaltung

On Thursday, 23 March 2023, a memorial service for Julie and Ludwig Löwenthal, Klara Grüner, and Fanny Gross took place in the Festspielhaus in Rosenheimer Straße. Before pupils from Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium read out the biographies, Mayor Dieter Reiter, Ellen Presser from the Cultural Centre of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, and City Councillor Florian Kraus spoke alongside others. Music was provided by the instrumental ensemble of the Heinrich Heine Gymnasium.

Afterwards, the Memorial Signs for Ludwig and Julie Löwenthal, Fanny Gross and Klara Grüner were placed at their former addresses.

Thursday, 23 March 2023
2.30 p.m.
Commemorative event
Festspielhaus, Rosenheimer Straße 192

Dr Helmut von Ahnen, Managing Director of the Festspielhaus gGmbH
Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter
Ellen Presser, Cultural Centre of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria
City Councillor Florian Kraus
Marcus Sillober, Director of the Städtisches Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium
Gunda Wolf-Tinapp, District Committee 16 - Ramersdorf-Perlach
Pupils of the Städtisches Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium
Music: Instrumental ensemble of the Städtisches Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium

Flyer (PDF)

Instrumentalensemble of the Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium

Dr Helmut von Ahnen, Managing Director of Festspielhaus gGmbH

Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter

Ellen Presser, Cultural Centre of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria

City school councillor Florian Kraus

Gunda Wolf-Tinapp, District Committee Ramersdorf-Perlach

Pupils of the Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium

The Instrumentalensemble of the Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium

Memorial Signs for Julie and Ludwig Löwenthal, Klara Grüner, and Fanny Gross

3:40 p.m.
Installation of the Memorial Signs for Julie and Ludwig Löwenthal
at the former residence at Rosenheimer Straße 214

The married couple Julie and Ludwig Löwenthal lived at Rosenheimer Strasse 214 and were partners in the company J. Löwnthal & Co, a wholesale business in Schwanthalerstrasse. After moving to Goethestraße in 1933, Ludwig and Julie Löwenthal lived in the same building as their wholesale business from 1936, which they were forced to close down in 1938. In 1942, the Gestapo deported the couple to the internment camp at Clemens-August-Straße 9. In 1943, Julie and Ludwig Löwenthal were deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp, where the SS murdered them as soon as the train arrived.

4 p.m.
Installation of the Memorial Sign for Klara Grüner
at the former residence at Rosenheimer Straße 216

After the death of her non-Jewish husband, Klara Grüner was forced to leave her flat at Rosenheimer Straße 216 in 1941. She had to do forced labour and move into the so-called ‘Jews’ house’ in Lindwurmtraße. In April 1943, the Gestapo deported her to the Theresienstadt ghetto, and the following year to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, where she was murdered in May or June 1944.

4:20 p.m.
Installation of the Memorial Sign for Fanny Gross
at the former residence at Rosenheimer Strasse 191

Born in Hungary, Fanny Gross moved with her husband from Budapest to Munich in 1900. After the death of her husband in 1925, she and her son Ladislaus moved into a flat at Rosenheimer Straße 191. In July 1939, the National Socialists forced her to leave her flat and move to the Israelite retirement home in Mathildenstraße. A few days later, she died in the ‘Israelite Private Clinic’ at Hermann-Schmid-Straße 5.