Hanna Salomons

Hanna Salomons is remembered at a former family home in Frankfurt’s Ernst May Siedlung, a housing project shaped by Neues Frankfurt. Here, a Jewish family lived before Nazi persecution shattered their lives. Arnold Salomons, born in Almelo, became a German citizen, served as an infantry soldier, and received recognition during World War I. In Frankfurt, he married Mina Löwenstein in 1919. Their children, Dagobert and Hanna, lived with them while Arnold worked as a tobacco agent amid growing financial hardship. Mina died from severe depression in 1937.

Financial pressure forced Dagobert to leave school before he fled to Colombia in 1938. Hanna was sent to Holland for safety. She was later captured, deported, and murdered in Auschwitz in 1942. During the November pogroms, authorities arrested Arnold and interned him in Dachau before releasing him. He fled to Holland, where he married family friend Lilly Goldschmidt in Westerbork transit camp. Deportation carried them through Theresienstadt to Auschwitz, where Arnold perished. Small brass Stolpersteine mark the family’s former residence and remember those who lived there.