# Else Hanau

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Else Hanau is a small memorial stone in Germany, dedicated to a woman shaped by twentieth-century persecution. Its quiet presence recalls a Jewish family whose life moved between continents, cities, and growing danger.

Born Else Alexandra Mayer in Chicago during the 1880s, she later married banker Adolf Hanau and raised their daughter Lotte. She also cared for her widowed mother, Babette, as the family lived in several German cities, including Berlin. Nazi laws and violence transformed their home into both a refuge and a place of constant fear. Catholic baptism offered no protection against racist persecution, arrest, or deportation.

By the early 1940s, Else’s relatives faced arrest, deportation, or exile, while the Gestapo ordered her to report for “evacuation.” She took her own life in June 1942. The stone preserves one person’s story within the Holocaust, with Lotte, Adolf, and Babette remaining part of the family remembered beside her.

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