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Margot Frank at the Varrentrappschule

Margot Frank attended the Varrentrappschule in Frankfurt am Main from 22 March 1933.

Margot Frank attended the Varrentrappschule from 22 March 1933 on. When she left there is not clearly indicated in the sources.[1] The Varrentrappschule was one of the two larger public schools in Frankfurt am Main in the 1930s.[2]

In the period that Margot was a pupil at this school, a Gesetz gegen die Überfüllung deutscher Schulen und Hochschulen was introduced on 25 April 1933. This law imposed restrictions on the percentage of non-Aryan pupils, among other things.[3] At that time, this new law did not yet have direct consequences for primary school children in Frankfurt. In June 1933, the municipal education board informed mayor Krebs that as a result of the Prussian law, the six hundred and sixty-two Jewish pupils in the city could stay in their schools.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Anne Frank Collectie, reg. code A_MFrank_I_023: Schulzeugnisse für Margot Frank.
  2. ^ Jonathan C. Friedman, The lion and the star. Gentile-Jewish relations in three Hessian communities, Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1998, p. 130.
  3. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt, 26 april 1933.
  4. ^ Friedman, The lion and the star, p. 131.