25T04 Anne Frank, from Frankfurt

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A lack of consistent sleep and a punishing yet rewarding Saturday meant Sunday and travel day 4 was tuned way down. But the forecast was sun and +23C. I’m on the move, but on a gentler pace around the city.

Dornbusch

With the U-Bahn north to Dornbusch, the underground passage leads to a small memorial wall, emphasizing the presence and traces of the Frank family in the neighbourhood until their move to Amsterdam in 1933. Artist Bernd Fischer created the memorial wall which the city inaugurated in 2009. The picture is one of the last family portraits, made by patriarch Otto of his wife, Edith, and two daughters Anne and Margot; the location is believed to be in the city, possibly near Hauptwache. All three women in the picture perished in the Holocaust. Otto survived and went to join his relatives in Basel where he spent the rest of his life.

Fotogedenkwand / Photo memorial wall.
One can almost hear the two daughters pleading with their dad to get on with it so they can get going, even as mum tries to placate them.
Dornbusch station: U2 southbound to Südbahnhof.

Neuer Börneplatz

Once the centre of the city’s Jewish community, the synagogue was destroyed in the 1938 Pogrom. The surviving adjacent cemetery is an important part of the city’s Museum Judengasse. On the wall surrounding the cemetery are over 11-thousand blocks, each with a name and representing a person from Frankfurt who died in the Holocaust. This is the memorial where I find the names: Edith Frank, Margot Frank, and Annelies Frank.

Gedenkstätte Neuer Börneplatz.
Edith, 1900-1945.
Margot, 1926-1945.
Annelies, 1929-1945.

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 11 May 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

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