Jettchen Hirsch

Jettchen Hirsch is a Stolperstein memorial in Frankfurt, set into pavement where Jewish victims once lived. Small brass plaques mark the last voluntarily chosen residences of people persecuted under the Nazi regime. The memorial recalls Jettchen Hirsch, who was born in 1863 and deported to Theresienstadt in 1942. She died there in 1944, leaving a personal story within the history of the Holocaust.

The Hirsch family also included Wilhelm Hirsch, a Bergen upholsterer and decorator active in local sport and the Red Cross. His marriage to Frieda Hirsch in 1922 brought three sons into the family. The November Pogrom tore them apart, and one son was detained at Buchenwald concentration camp. Two sons escaped to Australia in 1939, although authorities first interned them as enemy aliens. Wheelchair access lets you approach this pavement memorial while its brass surface connects Frankfurt’s streets with the lives destroyed by persecution.