Elisabeth Buxbaum, née Schneider, spent several years in Bad Kissingen at the beginning of the 1930s and worked here as a kindergarten teacher at the Israelite Children's Sanatorium.

Very little is known about her life. She was born on February 17,  1903, the daughter of the merchant Julius Schneider and his wife Thekla, née Dreifuss, in Bad Kreuznach (Rhine Province; today Rhineland-Palatinate). Elisabeth had three sisters, Emmy Babette, Hildegard and Anna.

In April 1930, the then 27-year-old Elisabeth came to Bad Kissingen for the first time and worked as a kindergarten teacher in the Israelite children's sanatorium. She obviously enjoyed the job, as she worked here again in the following years and lived in Salinenstraße during the summer months. In October 1934, she finally deregistered from Bad Kissingen.

She went back to Bad Kreuznach and married Ernst Buxbaum, who came from Schlierbach (now part of the municipality of Schaafheim in the southern Hessian district of Darmstadt-Dieburg), in November 1939. Elisabeth Buxbaum died in November 1941, a few months before the last Jewish citizens were deported from Bad Kreuznach. She was 38 years old. Her husband was deported to Auschwitz the following year and murdered; the date of death is given as July 25, 1942.

Elisabeth's mother Thekla and her sister Hildegard were also victims of the Shoah Her father Julius died in Bad Kreuznach in January 1941. Her sister Emmy Babette marr. Jäger, was able to flee with her family to Brazil.