Ettie Steinberg

They continued to flee the approaching Germans and eventually succeeded in gaining visas to travel to Northern Ireland, arranged by the Steinberg family in Dublin. However the papers arrived a day too late. The family were rounded up and put on a train to Auschwitz.^{[6][7][2][8][10][5]}

Clearly aware of what the danger was, Steinberg wrote a postcard to her family and threw it from the train. It read "Uncle Lechem, we did not find, but we found Uncle Tisha B'Av" which meant "we did not find bread (Hebrew לחם), but we found destruction (תשעה באב, a holiday that marks several tragedies in Jewish history)." A stranger found the postcard and posted it.^[6][2] Steinberg, her husband and her son arrived at Auschwitz on 4 September 1942 and were immediately murdered in the gas chambers.^[10]

A memorial to her is at a secondary school in Malahide, Co Dublin,^[7][2] as well as at the Irish Jewish Museum in Portobello, Dublin.^[10][5] In June 2022, a Stolperstein memorial was placed outside her primary school on Donore Avenue, along with similar markings for her husband, son, and three other Irish Jews murdered in the Holocaust.^[11]