Karolina Cohn
Karolina Cohn stands in Frankfurt as a memorial to a child victim of the Holocaust, marked by brass-plated cobblestones in the pavement. The stones belong to the Stolpersteine project, initiated by German artist Gunter Demnig, and lie before the Cohn family’s last known address.
Four names are remembered here: Karolina, her sister Gitta, and their parents Richard and Else Cohn. Each stone carries a name, birth date, and death date, bringing individual lives into the city’s streets. A pendant belonging to Karolina was later discovered at Sobibor, where archaeologists found it among personal belongings taken from victims. Genealogical research connected relatives across the world, who gathered in Frankfurt to honour her memory.
The small brass surfaces keep Karolina’s family visible at the place where they once lived.
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