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Frank family in Frankfurt am Main | Ganghoferstraße 24

The Frank family were registered at this address for two years.

Event

March 15, 1931 - March 25, 1933

50.14541 N 8.66514 E

Ganghoferstrasse 24

Frankfurt

On 15 March 1931 Otto and Edith Frank took over the tenancy agreement that the current tenant had made with the owner of the ground floor flat less than a year before.[1] The family was registered at this address ten days later.[2] Margot was five years old, Anne just over eighteen months.

A few surviving photographs show something of family life at this address. One photo shows Anne and Edith in the garden.[3] Two others show Anne in the garden with Margot and their friend, Grace Feige.[4]

The economic crisis hit the family hard in business terms. On 27 December 1932, Otto and Edith Frank wrote to the landlord that they had to give notice to terminate the rent on 31 March 1933 "in view of the changed economic situation" .[1] On 25 March 1933 the council transferred the family's registration to Dantestrasse 4, the house where Otto's mother was still living at the time.[5]

On the occasion of Anne Frank's 28th birthday on 12 June 1957, the city of Frankfurt placed a plaque on the façade of the house with the text:
'In diesem Haus lebte Anne Frank, geboren 12.6.1929 in Frankfurt am Main. Sie starb als Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung 1945 im KZ-Lager Bergen-Belsen. Ihr Leben und Sterben — Unsere Verplichtung. Die Frankfurter Jugend.'[6]

Footnotes

  1. a, b De eigenaar was H. Kegel, de eerdere bewoner heete Hock. Institut für Stadtgeschichte (IfS), Frankfurt am Main, Hausstandbücher, S4b/470, in: Personenmappe S2/757: Brief Otto en Edith  Frank aan Herr Kegel, 27 december 1932. 
  2. ^ IfS, Hausstandsbücher, nr. 1.382; Null-Kartei, Kasten Nr. 451: Gezinskaart O.H. Frank.
  3. ^ Anne Frank Stichtng (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), reg. code A_AFrank_III_055: Fotoalbum van Anne Frank ("Blanco Electro Monster Huishoudboek 1937"), p.15.
  4. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_GezinFrank_III_002: Foto van Margot, Anne en Grace Feige; AFS, AFC, reg. code A_MFrank_III_046: Fotoalbum met kinderfoto's van Margot en Anne Frank, van 1928 tot 1933, nrs. 86 en 89.
  5. ^ IfS, Hausstandsbücher, S4b/470, nr.1.382 in: Personenmappe S2/757; Null-Kartei, Kasten Nr. 451.
  6. ^ IfS, Frankfurt am Main 1933-1945: Wohnung der Familie Anne Franks 1931-1933. Op dezelfde dag werd in Amsterdam de 6e Montessorischool vernoemd tot Anne Frank School.