Jenny Hahn
This page is about one place: Jenny Hahn, a spot in Frankfurt with a story of its own. The story itself lives in the myTuur app, and it begins when you arrive and the app knows you are standing there.
The historical spot named Jenny Hahn marks a Stolperstein at her former workplace in Frankfurt. The stone recalls Jenny’s work, deportation, and fate during the Holocaust.
Jenny Hahn was born in Birstein in 1898 as the third of seven siblings. She moved from Birstein to Frankfurt in 1917, aged nineteen. At Zeil 92, she worked at the Rothschild retirement home for Jewish women and became its administrator in 1930. Mathilde von Rothschild and her daughters founded that home. The institution offered security to single Jewish women from higher social classes.
Jenny’s siblings emigrated to England and Mexico, while her own planned move to England failed when war began. Nazi authorities forced the home into the Reich Association of Jews in Germany in 1940. Jenny likely left it and possibly continued working at a hospital before her deportation to Raasiku in 1942. Her fate at Raasiku was most likely murder.
Her niece Marianne Ockenga initiated the Frankfurt memorial, and the wheelchair-accessible spot preserves Jenny’s name in the city.
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