Frank family address - Marbachweg, Frankfurt
In March 1927, Otto and Edith Frank and their one -year-old daughter Margot moved into the first and second floors of 307 Marbachweg.
It seems like an ideal environment for children to grow up in, in which Margot and Anne, born in June 1929, played with children from socially and religiously different families. A particularly warm friendship developed with neighbor Gertrud Naumann, the eldest daughter of a Catholic family. But due to the anti-Semitic hostilities of landlord Otto Könitzer, who lived on the ground floor, and passing SA troops, the Frank family moved in March 1931 to Ganghoferstrasse in the Poet's Quarter, which was characterized by a bourgeois-liberal character.[1]
A memorial column, designed by artist Bernd Fischer, marks the Frank family's home on Marbachweg.[2]
Footnotes
- ^ Zie Jürgen Steen, 'Die Familie Anne Franks: der Marbachweg als erwünschte Kinderwelt', Institut für Stadtgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main 1933-1945 (geraadpleegd 12 januari 2024).
- ^ Bernd Fischer, Gedenkstele zur Erinnerung an die im Marbachweg 307 geborene Anne Frank, (geraadpleegd 12 januari 2024).