Elisabeth Pick, née Markus

Elisabeth Pick, née Markus, was born in Mainz on April 7, 1871. Her husband Franz Pick († 1932) was co-owner of the malt factory Niedersedlitz; the marriage produced three children. Pick lived her last years in the „Judenhaus“ Caspar-David-Friedrich-Straße 15b; after receiving the deportation order to Theresienstadt she took her own life on January 27, 1942.

For the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Pick was a Jew; according to her own understanding, the daughter of emancipated, converted Jews and widow of a German officer was a German Protestant and patriot.

Before her suicide, she informed her four grandchildren, including Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, about the danger they were in as "half-Jews". All the grandchildren survived.