Holocaust Memorials in Frankfurt

When you come on the 10:30 daily walking tour with "Frankfurt on Foot" one of our stops is the Jewish Holocaust Remembrance Wall, and stops at various locations of the Stumble Stones (Stolperstein).

- The Jewish Holocaust Remembrance Wall is located next to the Judengasse Museum and surrounds the medieval Jewish cemetery. There are now almost 12,000 names on the wall, all in alphabetical order. The city library near the Klein Markt Halle has the deportation lists available. Anne Frank and her sister Margot, are on this wall since they were born in Frankfurt. Their mother, Edith Frank, is also included. The fact that none of these people have a personal grave or gravestone makes it so important that their names be remembered, and that families actually have a spot where they can come, grieve and pay their respects.

- Homosexual Holocaust Memorial. This is located about a block behind Karstadt department store and the Zeil. It is a beautiful angel that has had its neck broken and then reattached and had its wings clipped. The Nazis believed that Homosexuals were broken and needed to be "fixed", so the sculptor did this on purpose.

- Jehovah Witness Memorial. Frankfurt deported around 150 Jehovah Witnesses and 15 of them died in concentration camps. Location is Rohrbach Str. 56. The first 2 Stumble Stones for the Jehovah Witnesses that died, were installed in Frankfurt in 2014. The memorial is of 2 hands holding a loaf of bread to commemorate a Jehovah Witness baker who continued to sell bread to Jews even after this was forbidden by the nazis. He was then deported, but survived. He wasn't released until the war was over and by then was in ill health and had lost his entire business.

- Roma & Sinti Memorials. There are several of these around the city as Frankfurt had one of the largest Roma & Sinti populations in Germany. Visit the main cemetery, Hauptfriedhof, near the war memorial and war graves, as well as a plaque on the wall of the former Health Dept. now the Margarete restaurant on Braubach Str.

- Slave Laborers Memorial. The city cemetery, Hauptfriedhof, has a memorial built to honor the thousands of slave laborers and POW's who lost their lives here in Frankfurt,  due to starvation, death marches and the fact that during a bombing raid, they were not allowed in the "good" shelters. Many of these slave laborers were working at Adlerwerk, though many companies were also using them. We visit this Memorial during our Cemetery Tour.

- Stolper Stein (Stumble Stones). There are over 1100 of these brass cobblestones installed in Frankfurt, with almost 70,000 installed in 22 countries. These stones commemorate those who were murdered by the Nazis. We stop by these during our daily walking tour.

Please see the link for more information about locations in Frankfurt and the Stolperstein project.
Stumble Stones in Frankfurt


We can include any of these Memorials on your private or Layover tour if you would like to visit them.