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Anne and Margot Frank in Aachen | Monheimsallee 42-44

From September 1933, Anne and Margot lived with their grandmother in Aachen. Edith also stayed there a lot. Margot went to Amsterdam at the end of December, Anne on February 16, 1934.

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Sept. 1, 1933 - Feb. 16, 1934

50.77997 N 6.09289 E

Monheimsallee 42-44

Aken

Duitsland

After Alice Frank-Stern, Otto Frank's mother, moved from Frankfurt to her daughter in Basel in September 1933, Anne and Margot went to stay with their other grandmother, Rosa Holländer-Stern at the address Monheimsallee 42-44 in Aachen from September 1933 on.[1] Margot until December 1933; Anne until mid-February 1934. From this address, Margot sent a letter to Gertrud Naumann, a girl who used to live next door to her in Frankfurt am Main.[2] Three Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) commemorate their stay in Aachen.[3]

Otto had already gone to Amsterdam in June to set up Opekta and Edith traveled back and forth between the three cities.[4]

From Aachen, Margot moved to the Netherlands where she was registered as of 7 December 1933 at Merwedeplein 37-II in Amsterdam.[5] Edith Frank wrote to Gertrud Naumann just before Christmas 1933 that her brothers would bring Margot and: "Anne will auch mitkommem. Oma wird's schwer haben, das Kind noch ein paar Wochen dort zu halten."[6]
As of 7 December 1933, Anne Frank was also registered at Merwedeplein 37-II.[5] However, Anne's diaries state that she did not come to Amsterdam until February 1934, Margot's birthday.[1]

Footnotes

  1. a, b Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 15 June 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  2. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), reg. code A_Getuigen_I_053: Envelop met Margot Frank als afzender, gericht aan Gertrud Naumann. Omdat een filatelist de postzegel verwijderd heeft, is geen precieze datering mogelijk. Aangezien er "Gebt zur Winter(hilfe?)" op gestempeld staat, is het waarschijnlijk eind 1933 geweest.
  3. ^ Wege gegen das Vergessen: Aachen 1933–1945: Stolpersteine: Frank, Anne.
  4. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_Getuigen_I_082: Edith Frank aan Gertrud Nauman.
  5. a, b Stadarchief Amsterdam , Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5421): Gezinskaart O.H. Frank.
  6. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_Getuigen_I_084: Edith Frank aan Gertrud Naumann, gedateerd: Samstag.