Familie Frank in Frankfurt am Main | Dantestraße 4
In March 1933, the Frank family moved into the home of Otto's mother, Alice Frank-Stern. From here Otto went to the Netherlands to establish the Opekta company, while the children stayed with their grandmother.
On 25 March 1933 Otto Frank and his family moved from Ganghoferstrasse 24 to Dantestraße 4 in Frankfurt.[1] This was the house in the street subsequently renamed Mertonstrasse,[2] where his mother, Alice Frank-Stern, still lived.[3] This was the last address Otto Frank and his family had in Germany before emigrating to the Netherlands.[4] After grandmother Alice Frank-Stern left for Basel in September 1933, Anne and Margot went to stay with their maternal grandmother, Rosa Holländer-Stern, in Aachen.[5]
Today, the house on Dantestrasse no longer exists. Dantestrasse 4-6 houses the Seminary of Judaism of the Wolfgang-Goethe University.
Footnotes
- ^ Institut für Stadtgeschichte (IfS), Frankfurt am Main, Ganghoferweg 24, Hausstandsbuch (Einwohnermelderegister), Personenmappe S2/757).
- ^ Mertonstrasse was verrnoemd naar de Joodse industrieel, weldoener en oprichter van de universiteit Wilhelm Merton (1848-1916). In de periode 1933-1938 grootscheepse herbenoeming van straten en pleinen genoemd naar Joodse personen: Mertonstrasse werd hernoemd in Universitätsstrasse en Dantestrasse. Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog bleef de naam Dantestrasse gehandhaafd, de Universitätsstrasse werd weer Mertonstrasse. IfS: Stadvermessungsamt 428, Tabelle Aloys Molter. De precieze data van deze veranderingen zijn vooralsnog niet bekend. In het telefoonboek van 1920 staat nog Jordanstrasse: Januar 1920. Verzeichnis der Teilnehmer an den Fernsprechnetzen im Ober-Postdirektionsbezirk Frankfurt (Main).
- ^ Familiearchief Anne Frank-Fonds, Bazel, Alice Frank, AFF_AlF_odoc_02: Opgave van door Alice Frank uitgevoerde huisraad.
- ^ Jürgen Steen, 'Die Familie Anne Franks: von der Ganghoferstraße in die Emigration', IfS, Frankfurt am Main 1933-1945.
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 15 June 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.