Anne Frank Memorial Tree Kommern

At the "Anne Frank memorial tree" at the Jewish cemetery on the Prinzenweg, attention was also paid to the murdered children from Kommern.

The chestnut tree is a descendant of the chestnut that Anne Frank could see from her hiding place in Amsterdam and about which she wrote in her world-famous diary on 18 April 1944: "Our chestnut is already quite green, and you can already see candles here and there. …"

Anne Frank died of typhus in the spring of 1945 at the age of 16 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

The last children of the Bleiberg and Greesberg were picked up on July 19, 1942 from the "Judenhaus" on Kommerner Strasse, taken to Cologne and finally deported to the extermination camp by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in a cattle car in the direction of Minsk.

Nine stones commemorate the children Edgar and Helga Cohn, Hannah and Ruth Eiffeler, Hilde Herz, Jack Kaufmann, Herbert Levy, Else and Käthe Levin.

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• Text: Hans Tasma
• Photos: Hans Tasma