Munich to put up memorial sign for Nazi victim Anna Paroubek in Großhadern

The City of Munich is honouring Anna Paroubek, a Jewish woman persecuted by the Nazis and deported to Theresienstadt, with a memorial sign at her former home at Großhaderner Straße 18.

A commemoration will be held on Tuesday 15 September at 5pm at the Guardini90 cultural centre, Guardinistraße 90. City councillor Nimet Gökmenoğlu, of the Greens – Rosa Liste group on the city council, will speak on behalf of the Lord Mayor, and Anna Paroubek's relatives will talk about her life. The sign will then be put up at Großhaderner Straße 18 at 6.15pm.

Anna Paroubek was born in 1870 in Czellechowitz, now part of the Czech town of Stochov, and moved to Munich before the turn of the century. In 1921 she moved with her family to Großhadern. After her husband's death she lived at what was then Heiglstraße 32.

Once the Nazis came to power, she was increasingly excluded from society. On 23 July 1942 the Gestapo deported her to the Theresienstadt ghetto, where she died on 15 September 1943, aged 73, as a result of the inhumane living conditions.

Since 2018, memorial signs have been put up in places where people persecuted and murdered by the Nazis once lived. The gilded signs give the person's dates, details of their fate and, where available, a picture. Further information is available at https://www.erinnerungszeichen.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/Erinnerungszeichen-für-Anna-Paroubek.html.