Ronald Wilfred Jansen - Anne Frank

A monument next to the new synagogue commemorates the destruction of the old one (currently 23 Synagogenplatz). The Jewish community has shrunk considerably, and now comprises only 500 members. Many people refuse to learn from history: Jews are still being harassed in many places, with Aachen no exception. There will always be frustrated people who take out their frustrations on minorities. The Aachen synagogue was plastered with swastikas in the night of 4 July 2011.

At 1 Pastorplatz, Stolpersteine (cobble stones) have been installed in the pavement in memory of Anne, Margot and Edith who died (i.e. were murdered) in Nazi concentration camps. 21The brass plates were 5 made on the initiative of the Anne-Frank Grammar School in Aachen by the artist Günter Demnig (born in 1947) on the occasion of Anne’s 80 thbirthday in 2009. Such monuments are slightly raised in comparison to other stones, and may cause one to trip, raising awareness of the surrounding buildings whose former residents were murdered by the Nazis. Stolpersteine were made for the Nazi victims: their name, as well as the date and place they were killed (mostly in concentration camps), are engraved on the Stolpersteine . 22The area surrounding 1 Pastorplatz has become quite decrepit over the course of time. On a Sunday afternoon, I saw homeless people, worn-out benches and an old phone booth. There is a heavy iron gate in front of the building. An iron roll-down shutter serves to discourage burglars. The name plates indicate that a number of entrepreneurs are located at 1 Pastorplatz.

One may find various references to Anne in Aachen, such as public buildings named after her. Students of the Anne Frank Grammar School read her diary and have visited the Secret Annex in Amsterdam. 23On what would have been Anne Frank’s 80 thbirthday in 2009, the Anne Frank Grammar School, the Aachen police force and the Volkshochschule Aachen, its general secondary school, participated in a day of projects on the theme of National Socialism. 24Plays based on The Diaries are being staged: in 2007, the Grenzlandtheater Aachen 25staged such a play for the Anne-Frank Grammar School. Although Anne’s memory is alive amongst the younger generation, there is no prominent statue of Anne anywhere in Aachen—as in Frankfurt am Main.

1Anne Frank Verhaaltjes, en gebeurtenissen uit het Achterhuis. Met de roman in wording Cady’s leven (Amsterdam, 2005), p. 70. English edition: Tales from the Secret Annex. Including her Unfinished Novel Cady’s Live (Halban Publishers, 2010).

2Carol Ann Lee. Anne Frank. Het leven van een jong meisje [The life of a Young Girl. The Definitive Biography] (Amsterdam, 2009), p. 71.

3 http://www.freebase.com/view/en/abraham_hollander .

4Not to be confused with the current 5 Liebfrauenstrasse, Eschweiler, Germany.

5Melissa Müller, Anne Frank. De biografie (Amsterdam, 1998), p. 88. Original German edition: Das Mädchen Anne Frank. Die Biographie . English edition: Anne Frank. The Biography (Macmillan, 2013).

6Other sources state that Rosa lived on Monheimsallee since the death of her husband in 1928 ( http://www.wgdv.de/wege/monheimsallee.htm ,(German only).

7 http://www.jhm.nl/cultuur-en-geschiedenis/woordenlijst/c/chanoeka(Dutch only), English summary on http://www.jhm.nl/culture-and-history/glossary/h/hanukkah

8 http://werelderfgoedfotos.nl/fotos/119-dom-van-aken.html .

9 http://www.aachen.de/EN/ts/140_museums/140_70.html .

10Manfred Bierganz and Annelie Kreutz, Juden in Aachen [Jews in Aachen] (Aachen, 1988), p. 125 (German only).

11Manfred Bierganz and Annelie Kreutz, Juden in Aachen (Aachen, 1988), p. 122 (German only).

12 http://www.aachen.de/de/kultur_freizeit/pdf_kultur_freizeit/gedenktafeln.pdf .

13An address book states that Rosa lived on Monheimsallee in 1934 (Email from the Stadtarchiv Aachen [Municipal Archives], 24 November 2010).

14Emails from the Stadtarchiv Aachen [Municipal Archives], 23 November 2010 and 24 November 2010.

15Original German slogans: ‘Juda verrecke!’, ‘Kauft nicht bei Juden!’ and ‘Juden den Tod!’ Manfred Bierganz and Annelie Kreutz, Juden in Aachen (Aachen, 1988), p. 34 (German only).

16Manfred Bierganz and Annelie Kreutz, Juden in Aachen (Aachen, 1988), p. 51 (German only).

17Manfred Bierganz and Annelie Kreutz, Juden in Aachen (Aachen, 1988), p. 51 (German only).

18Manfred Bierganz and Annelie Kreutz, Juden in Aachen (Aachen, 1988) , p. 85 (German only).

19 http://www.holocaust.cz/en/victims/PERSON.ITI.596766 .

20Manfred Bierganz and Annelie Kreutz, Juden in Aachen (Aachen, 1988), p. 72 (German only).

21Murder would imply an active act. In the case of the Jews, however, I still refer to this as murder.

22 http://www.stolpersteine.com/start.html .

23 http://www.anne-frank-gymnasium.de/?page_id=6(German only).

24 http://www.vhs-aachen.de/(German only). 5

25 http://www.grenzlandtheater.de/(German only).

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