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Hilde Mag-Staab

Hilde Staab lived next door to the Frank family in Frankfurt am Main as a child. Together with her sister Marianne, she played a lot with Margot Frank.

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  • Hildegard Elisabeth Mag-Staab
  • Born on: May 20, 1921
  • Born in: Schwanheim am Main, Duitsland
  • Died on: Dec. 3, 2020
  • Died in: Frankfurt am Main, Duitsland

Communieportret van Hilde Staab, Frankfurt am Main, 12 april 1931

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Hilde Staab was born 20 May 1921 in Schwanheim am Main, since 1928 a district of Frankfurt am Main. She was a daughter of Johann Ferdinand Staab (21 augustus 1892 - 17 januari 1984) and Ida Staab-Hendel (16 september 1892 - 8 april 1941).[1] She had a younger sister Marianne Staab (23 december 1924 - 24 februari 1994).[2]

Hilde's parents married in Schawnheim am Main on 27 December 1919.[3] After the birth of their two daughters, the Staab family moved to Marbachweg 305 in Frankfurt am Main on 3 February 1926.[4] This house, together with number 307, formed a semi-detached house, which had been designed and built by Hildes' father. Ferdinand Staab worked as an architect at the construction company Philipp Holzmann AG.[5] Between 1927 and 1931, the Frank family lived on the first floor of the house at number 307. This flat was rented out by Otto Könitzer, who lived on the ground floor with his family.

Hilde regularly played with the younger neighbour's girl Margot Frank. She attended the Holzhausenschule and grew up in a Catholic family.[6] In a 2012 interview, she said that she and her sister and Margot re-enacted the Catholic Mass, with Hilde and Marianne being priests and Margot being altar server.[7] After her first communion in 1931, Margot also attended a party for the neighbourhood children. A photo of this has been preserved.[8] There is also a picture showing Hilde lying on the floor next to Margot with a can of polishing wax.[9] A number of photos show Hilde and Margot together with other neighbourhood children.[10]

After the Frank family moved to Ganghoferstraße 24 on 25 March 1931 and later emigrated to the Netherlands, contact faded away. Her neighbour Gertrud Naumann, who lived at 303 Marbachweg, did keep in touch with the Frank family through letters and cards. Hilde remembers Gertrud sometimes reading these letters from the Frank family to her.[11]Gertrud also kept Edith Frank informed about Hilde's mother, who was suffering from cancer for a long time and eventually passed away on 8 April 1941.[12] Her father remarried a year later on 16 June 1942 to Marie Wilhelmine Kothe.[13]

On 9 August 1941, Hilde married Josef Wilhelm Mag (13 July 1912 - 3 March 1974) in Oberursel, a town bordering Frankfurt am Main.[14] Because of the Allied bombing of Frankfurt am Main in early 1944, Hilde fled with their firstborn child to Korbach in northern Hesse. Her husband was a member of the Wehrmacht and she was pregnant with a second child at the time. She stayed in Korbach with her children until they moved in with her parents-in-law in Oberursel late 1944. In 1945 she returned to the Marbachweg where she went to live at number 355.[15]

Source personal data.[16] Addresses: Marbachweg 305, Marbachweg 355, Frankfurt am Main.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Institut für Stadtgeschite (ISG), Standesamt Frankfurt am Main (StA-Ffm), overlijdensakte Johann Ferdinand Staab, nr. 379-1984; overlijdensakte Ida Staab-Hendel, nr. 125-1941.
  2. ^ StA-Ffm, geboorteakte Marianne Margarete Staab, nr. 72; StA-Ffm, overlijdensakte Marianne Margarete Bittel-Staab, nr. 1425-1994.
  3. ^ ISG, Standesamt Schwanheim, huwelijksakte Johann Ferdinand Staab en Ida Hendel, nr. 43-1919.
  4. ^ ISG-Ffm, gezinskaart Staab, Marbachweg 305.
  5. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Getuigenarchief, Mag-Staab, Hilde, transcriptie interview Hilde Mag-Staab door Menno Metselaar, 21 juni 2012, p. 10 en 18; Getuigenarchief, Könitzer, Otto, brief van Otto Könitzer aan de Anne Frank Stichting, 7 december 1994.
  6. ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, Mag-Staab, Hilde, transcriptie interview Hilde Mag-Staab door Menno Metselaar, 21 juni 2012, p. 2.
  7. ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, Mag-Staab, Hilde, transcriptie interview Hilde Mag-Staab door Menno Metselaar, 21 juni 2012, p. 7-8.
  8. ^ AFS, Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), reg. code A_MFrank_III_046.068: Foto uit een album van Margot Frank tijdens de Communie van haar buurmeisje Hilde Staab.
  9. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_MFrank_III_046.063.
  10. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_MFrank_III_027.017; A_MFrank_III_046.033; A_MFrank_III_046.055; A_MFrank_III_046.067 en A_MFrank_III_055.038.
  11. ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, Mag-Staab, Hilde, transcriptie interview Hilde Mag-Staab door Menno Metselaar, 21 juni 2012, p. 19-20.
  12. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_Getuigen_I_101 en 104: poststukken van Edith Frank aan Gertrud Naumann; ISG-StA-Ffm, overlijdensakte Ida Staab-Hendel, nr. 125-1941.
  13. ^ ISG-StA-Ffm, overlijdensakte Johann Ferdinand Staab, nr. 379-1984.
  14. ^ ISG-Ffm, gezinskaart Staab, Marbachweg 305, A.12.03, nr. 1598; ISG-StA-Ffm, overlijdensakte Josef Wilhelm Mag, nr. 2124-1974.
  15. ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, Mag-Staab, Hilde, transcriptie interview Hilde Mag-Staab door Menno Metselaar, 21 juni 2012, p. 25-26.
  16. ^ StA-Ffm, geboorteakte Hildegard Elisabeth Staab, nr. 46; StA-Ffm, overlijdensakte Hildegard Elisabeth Mag-Staab, nr. S 6012-2020.