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Jewish members of the Frankfurt Alpine Club section were also victims of the November pogroms in 1938. As far as we can reconstruct, the outbreak of violence in the city, which lasted several days, was not directly echoed in the section at the time, which had already been brought into line with the Nazis. At the same time, we cannot rule out the possibility that members loyal to the Nazis were involved in the serious riots, arson and mistreatment of Jews.

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.

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.

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.

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.