Helene Melanie Lebel

Helene, affectionately known as Helly, was diagnosed with schizophrenia around the age of 20. In 1936 she was placed in Vienna's Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital. Two years later, in 1938, the Germans annexed Austria to Germany. Helene was confined to Steinhof and not allowed to return home even though her condition had improved. Helene was transferred to a converted prison in Brandenburg, Germany, where she was undressed, subjected to physical examination, and then sent to a shower room. Helene was one or 9, 722 persons gassed that year in the Brandenburg "Euthanasia" Center. She was officially listed as dying in her room of "acute schizophrenic excitement."

-United States Holocaust Memorial Museum