Van Pels Family Memorial in Osnabrück

Just thought I'd note that there's a small memorial to the van Pels family in the town of Osnabrück, Germany, where they lived before fleeing to Holland. Stolpersteine, or "tripping stones", bearing the names, dates of birth, and places of death of the three van Pelses were laid down near their former residence on Martinistraße.

A picture can be seen here

Tripping stones for some 13,000 victims of Nazism have been laid in Germany and a few other countries so far. The project will soon be brought to Holland; I wonder if similar stones will be made for the Franks or for Fritz Pfeffer?

I heard of this stones before, so good they remembered the Van Pells!
They might be doing it for the Franks and Fritz Pfeffer! Hope so!

Thanks for sharing!

It looks like I spoke too soon:

I just discovered that Stolpersteine are already being planned to commemorate Anne, Edith, and Margot. They will be set up this month -- on June 15th -- in Aachen, outside the house on Pastorplatz where they lived with Edith's mother before leaving Germany for good.

I hope pictures of these memorial stones will be published when the project is completed. I can't wait to see what they look like!

Thats super news!!

I like it.

I finally found a photograph of the completed Stolpersteine for the Franks in Aachen, from this page:




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Thank you!!

I always tought they would put it in Frankfurt!

Yeah, I thought that Frankfurt might have been a better location for this sort of memorial, or maybe the Merwedeplein in Amsterdam, but tripping stones in Aachen also make sense: it's a memorial to a family in flight from the Nazis, on their way from one home to another.