Helene Meyerstein (5 January 1874 – 17 June 1958) was a German composer,[1] singer,[2] and pianist who toured throughout the United States during the 1920s[3] and was interned in the Theresienstadt (Czechoslovakia) concentration camp during World War II.

[5] She studied piano and voice[6] at the Leipzig Conservatory, then married Alfred Schneider, a merchant in Berlin.

[8] Stein-Schneider composed several patriotic pieces during World War I and dedicated them to the socially-prominent people who attended her musical salons in Berlin.

In 1942, she was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where she remained until the end of the war, when she relocated to Switzerland.

She returned to Berlin and eventually received a compensation payment of 3,500 DM for the damages she sustained at Theresienstadt.