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Art and remembrance--20 years of Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in Frankfurt on the Main and 23 years of the Library of Generations
November 11, 2023, marked the 20th anniversary of the first Stolperstein (stumbling stone) being laid in Frankfurt on the Main by the artist Gunter Demnig. Three years before this first Stolperstein was laid, the artist Sigrid Sigurdsson launched the "Library of Generations" remembrance project. Under the motto "Art and Remembrance--20 Years of Stumbling Stones in Frankfurt am Main and 23 Years of the Library of Generations", a public event will take place on November 30, 2023, at which members of the Frankfurt Stumbling Stone Initiative will look back on 20 years of work on their project. This will be followed by a panel discussion with Gunter Demnig (artist), DW Dreysse (co-initiator of the Stumbling Stone Initiative), Prof. Dr. Astrid Erll (Goethe University Frankfurt/Memory Studies), Dr. Jan Gerchow (Historical Museum Frankfurt), Dr. Martin Dill & Annika Wagner (Initiative Stolpersteine Frankfurt). The moderator will be Dr. Angela Jannelli (Historical Museum Frankfurt).
The event begins on Thursday, November 30, 2023, at 6:30 pm in the Leopold Sonnemann Hall in the Historical Museum Frankfurt.
Admission is free; registration is not required.
The First Traces or How the Research Begins
We began researching our former Jewish members and the history of our section during the Nazi era in our own archives. Unfortunately, not too many documents have survived, especially from the war years. Our search therefore quickly shifted to other sources. In the following, we would like to draw particular attention to the publicly accessible sources on the history of the Alpine Club.
(Not only) Women's Fates--New Cases Online
Thanks to our ongoing research, exciting new cases have recently come online. This time, we have tried to focus in particular on the fates of our female members, about whom we have often been able to find out very little. For example, about Flora Grünebaum, whose son Fritz Grunebaum became a famous rugby player in the USA, or about Katharine Elsbeth Salomon, the wife of Dr. Max Salomon, about whom we have put initial information online. We know more about Eva Sonntag (née Schönfließ), whose entire family suffered under the National Socialist regime. Dr. Otto Kahn-Freund, a doctor of law and social democrat, was also disenfranchised by the National Socialists and had to flee to Great Britain. It is worth reading these different biographies--so click through!
Spurensuche (Tracing) National Socialism draws circles
Two new digital platforms from renowned Frankfurt institutions are dedicated to remembering the victims of National Socialism in the city. The Historical Museum and the Jewish Museum Frankfurt have also included our online documentation "Spurensuche (Tracing) National Socialism" in their offerings. It's worth clicking in and reading up.
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From November 6 to 8, 2022: Conference on Jewish Frankfurt on the Main
From November 6 to 8, 2022, an international conference entitled "Jewish Frankfurt. Destruction and a fragile new beginning 1933 to 1990" takes place. Among other things, the conference will examine the specifics of Jewish history in Frankfurt on the Main under the Nazi regime, but it will also look at the period after 1945, when a Jewish community developed again in Frankfurt.
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