Memorial Sign for Anna Paroubek,
Guardinistraße 90

Anna Graf was born in 1870 in Czellechowitz (now part of the town of Stochov in the Czech Republic). In search of work, she moved to Munich, where she married Anton Paroubek, a Catholic tailor specialising in men’s clothing, in January 1900. Anna Paroubek was a non-practising Jew; the couple raised their daughter, Emilie, as a Catholic.

Anton Paroubek ran a successful tailor’s shop in Munich. In 1921, the family moved to Lindenallee 3 in Großhadern, where they quickly settled in. Anton Paroubek begame friends with the parish priest. Emilie joined the local sports club and took music lessons. Anna Paroubek loved the theatre and the opera and worked in her husband’s business. Following Anton Paroubek’s death in 1932, Anna Paroubek moved closer to her daughter, into a smaller flat at 32 Heiglstraße.

After the Nazis came to power, she was no longer allowed to visit her daughter in the neighbouring house, as her daughter’s landlord would not tolerate Jews. Once Jewish people were forced to wear the Judenstern attached to their coat in public, Anna Paroubek stopped leaving her apartment. In July 1942, the Gestapo deported her to the Theresienstadt ghetto, where Anna Paroubek died in September as a result of the inhumane conditions.