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Stumbling Stones Commemorate Martha and Hugo Bauer and Their Children
At Kettenhofweg 70 in Frankfurt on the Main, where the Bauer family home once stood, stumbling stones have been in place for a few days to commemorate the five people who fled Nazi persecution: the dentist Martha Bauer, her husband, the chemist Hugo Bauer, who were both members of the Frankfurt Alpine Club section at the time, and their children Hildegard, Hans Jakob and Doris. Armin Prass from our tracing team attended the ceremony on October 29, 2024, we met the grandson Jon Bauer and can now present a lot of new information and photos.
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Further Biografies Posted Online
Step by step, we are putting more biographies online or adding to existing entries. For example, for the first time you can read about our former Jewish member Else Bermann (1897-1937). In addition, thanks to the help of granddaughters of Otto Aschaffenburg (1878-1942), who live in the USA, a series of pictures of him and his family has been created. The biography of Paul Spiro (1892-1975) has been expanded to include an original soundtrack and a short series of pictures thanks to a granddaughter in Switzerland.
Excluded--New Brochure on the Donauland Affair in the Alpine Club
100 years ago, in December 1924, the German and Austrian Alpine Association (DuÖAV) excluded the Donauland section, which was mainly made up of Jewish mountaineers. It was the sad culmination of years of anti-Semitic agitation in the Alpine Club, which had become increasingly aggressive. To mark the commemorative year, a new German Alpine Club (DAV) brochure now takes a look at what happened back then.
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“Frankfurt liest ein Buch" (Frankfurt Reads a Book) presents section member Nini Hess, who was murdered by the Nazis
This time, the book "Zebras im Schnee" (Zebras in the Snow) by Florian Wacker is the focus of the two-week reading festival "Frankfurt liest ein Buch" (Frankfurt Reads a Book) from the end of April 2024. The novel, which is partly based on real events, is about Frankfurt on the Main in the 1920s. Among the numerous events at the festival, two, on May 1 and May 4, commemorate a former section member who was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz: Nini Hess, a highly renowned photographer at the time but hardly known today.
Project “Denk Mal am Ort” (Think/Memorial on Site) on April 6 and 7, 2024, in the footsteps of the persecuted Bauer family--with grandson Jon Bauer
On Saturday and Sunday, April 6 and 7, 2024, the "Denk Mal Am Ort" (Think/Memorial on Site) initiative will commemorate people who were marginalized, persecuted and murdered during the Nazi era at historic Frankfurt on the Main locations. On Saturday, you have the chance to find out more about one of our persecuted former members: Hugo Bauer, who with his wife Martha Bauer was also a member of the Frankfurt section of the German and Austrian Alpine Club at the time, will be commemorated. Bauer conducted research as a chemist at the Georg-Speyer-Haus until he was dismissed in 1935 due to the Nazi racial laws. To commemorate him and other Jewish scientists, there will be a lecture and discussion at Georg-Speyer-Haus, Paul-Ehrlich street 42-44 in the Sachsenhausen district on April 6, 2024, from 1.30 pm. Jon Bauer, a grandson of Hugo and Martha Bauer, who has traveled from the USA, will be present. It is not necessary to register for this event.