Dora Buchband geb. Gingold
Dora Buchband geb. Gingold is a Frankfurt Stolperstein dedicated to a Jewish woman whose life crossed Germany and France. The brass plaque preserves her name in Frankfurt.
Born to Moritz and Esther Gingold, Dora fled Germany for France with her family during growing persecution. She married Henri Buchband there and raised children named Gilbert and Hélène.
During the Second World War, Dora and her siblings supported the French Resistance against Nazi occupation. Vichy police arrested Dora in France for refusing to wear the yellow star. Authorities sent her to Drancy internment camp before deporting her to Auschwitz. She was murdered there during the Holocaust. Her brother Leo also reached Auschwitz after arrest and deportation, where he was killed.
Stolpersteine are brass plaques set into pavements near victims’ last freely chosen homes. This wheelchair-accessible memorial connects Frankfurt’s streets with Dora’s family, resistance, persecution, and murder. Dora’s name remains the central detail, linking displacement in Germany and France with the history of Auschwitz.
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Image: Freigabe für Commons-Wikimedia erteilt von Initiative Stolpersteine Frankfurt am Main e.V.CC BY-SA 4.0 
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Image: Freigabe für Commons-Wikimedia erteilt von Initiative Stolpersteine Frankfurt am Main e.V.CC BY-SA 4.0 
Image: Freigabe für Commons-Wikimedia erteilt von Initiative Stolpersteine Frankfurt am Main e.V.CC BY-SA 4.0 
Image: Freigabe für Commons-Wikimedia erteilt von Initiative Stolpersteine Frankfurt am Main e.V.CC BY-SA 4.0
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