Gedenktafel Hermann Leopoldi und Helly Möslein

On October 1, 2012, a memorial plaque was unveiled on the façade of house Diesterweggasse 8, commemorating the composer Hermann Leopoldi and the singer Helly Möslein. The NS regime arrested Leopoldi, who came from a Jewish family, on April 26 and deported him to the concentration camp Dachau and from there to the concentration camp Buchenwald. His wife Eugenie, who had already fled to the USA, and her parents managed to get Leopoldi out of the camp and organize his departure to the USA. In New York, Leopoldi met the singer Helly Möslein, with whom he returned to Vienna in 1947 and lived in this house from 1949.