Mina Salomons
Mina Salomons is remembered in Frankfurt through Stolpersteine connected with a Jewish family’s life and persecution. Her family lived in the Bornheimer Hang settlement, part of the Neues Frankfurt housing project.
Arnold Salomons came from Almelo in the Netherlands, served as an infantry soldier, and settled in Frankfurt after World War I. He married Mina Löwenstein in Frankfurt in 1919. Rising Nazi persecution brought financial and social pressure, separating the family through forced migration, arrest, imprisonment, and deportation. Mina suffered severe depression and died in 1937.
Dagobert left school for an apprenticeship, while Hanna went to the Netherlands and Dagobert later fled to Colombia. Arnold was arrested after the November pogroms and sent to Dachau. After his release, he escaped to the Netherlands, then married Lilly Goldschmidt in Westerbork camp in 1942. Theresienstadt and Auschwitz followed, where Arnold perished. The stones in Frankfurt keep the family’s memory tied to the city and its history of Jewish persecution.
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