Josefine Winter

The children were placed in the care of a governess, Marie Heidenhain from Dresden, who became the father's new wife after the mother's death in 1896[1][2] Josefine was educated by private tutors, but as a girl was not allowed to study.

Through visits to performances of the Vienna Court Opera, Josefine became enthusiastic about Georges Bizet's Carmen and began to play the melodies she heard on the piano.

[7] Using her fortune, her husband founded, among other things, a lung sanatorium and mobile epidemic laboratories for the Red Cross, for which he was awarded the title "Edler von Wigmar" in 1914.

[9] Due to the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Race Laws, Josefine Winter was expelled from her villa at Anastasius-Grün-Gasse 54 in the Cottage district of Währing to Vereinigte Textilwerke K. H. Barthel & Co, a company linked to the Gabersdorf labour camp,[citation needed] was forced into a "collective apartment" in the Second District at Springergasse 27 and lost all her rights.

Her assets were "Aryanized", that is, transferred to non-Jewish owners, and she was deported on Transport IV/4 to the Theresienstadt Ghetto on 15 July 1942, where she died on 20 January 1943.