Because she was Jewish, Olga Maier was murdered in 1942. Relatives from halfway around the world travel to Munich because the city remembers them with memorial signs and exhibitions. And there is a very special birthday cake in the museum.
As is typical of a birthday party, there are also cakes for the guests, baked according to a special recipe. A remarkable group of family members have come together from Franconia, Denmark, England, Israel and the USA. January 11th is Olga Maier’s 148th birthday. She was murdered in 1942 by the National Socialists in the Treblinka extermination camp. Now the city of Munich remembers her with a memorial sign on the facade of the house at Arcostraße 1, where she lived. She is inscribed in the family memory as “Aunt Olga”; she did not have any children of her own.