All deaths during the Holocaust were awful but the death of Henriette Gottlieb is particularly poignant. Some sources say she died on January 2 1942, other sources say she died in 1943.
One thing that is fairly certain is that she died in the Lodz Ghetto.
Henriette Gottlieb should have been known as one of the best Opera Sopranos ever but yet she all but forgotten.
Hitler’s favourite composer was Wagner ,Gottlieb was a particularly noted Wagnerian interpreter, and sang at the Bayreuth Festivals (1927-30)
She performed the Wagnerian role of Brünnhilde in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, in a 1928 performance of Der Ring der Nibelung.Following the Nazi ban on Jewish performers, she lived in Berlin until she was deported to the Łódź Ghetto ( in 1941. According most sources she was murdered in Lodz on January 2 1942.
Sources
Opera Nederland
Wikipedia Germany
MUGi-Musik &Gender inm Internet.