Innenstadt I in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany — Central Europe

Mahnmal für den Widerstand gegen NS-Terror
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Memorial for the Resistance Against Nazi Terror

Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, September 23, 2019

1. Mahnmal für den Widerstand gegen NS-Terror / Memorial for the Resistance Against Nazi Terror

The written portion of the memorial consists of three panels with the names of 53 of the more important concentration camps.

The memorial plaque for Johanna Kirchner, executed by the Nazis in 1944, is also visible here behind the memorial.

Inscription. Auschwitz · Belzec · Bergen-Belsen · Białystok · Buchenwald · Burg-Hohenstein · Columbiahaus · Dachau · Dora-Mittelbau · Drancy · Dürrgoy · Esterwegen · Flossenbürg · Fuhlsbüttel · Gross-Rosen · Gurs Gusen I Gusen II · Hertogenbosch · Heuberg-Alb · Hnzert · Kemna · Kowno · Krakau-Plaszow · Kulmhof · Le Vernet · Lemberg · Lichtenburg · Litzmannstadt · Lublin · Majdenek · Malines · Mauthausen · Minsk · Monowitz · Moringen · Natzweiler · Neuengamme · Oranienburg · Ravensbrück · Riga · Riga-Kaiserwald ·Riga-Salaspils · Sachsenburg · Sachsenhausen · Sobibór · Sonnenburg · Stutthof · Sulza · Theresienstadt · Treblinka · Warschau · Westerbork

Erected 1964 by Stadt Frankfurt am Main.

Topics and series. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World II. In addition, it is included in the The Holocaust series list.

Location. 50° 6.678′ N, 8° 40.825′ E. Memorial is in Frankfurt am Main, Hessen (Hesse). It is in Innenstadt I. It is at the intersection of Berliner Strasse and Paulsplatz, on the right when traveling east on Berliner Strasse. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: Paulsplatz 11, Frankfurt am Main HE 60311, Germany. Touch for directions.

Regionally, it is in Europe,

the European Union,

Atlantic Europe,

Central Europe,

the Schengen Area,

Western Europe,

and the Western World.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Roman Empire

and specifically also the Holy Roman Empire.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker

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: Johanna Kirchner (here, next to this marker); Democracy and the Gymnastics Movement (within shouting distance of this marker); Heinrich von Gagern (within shouting distance of this marker); Altes Rathaus - Old Town Hall (within shouting distance of this marker); Walter Kolb (within shouting distance of this marker); Theodor Heuss (within shouting distance of this marker); Pre-Parliament and the National Assembly (within shouting distance of this marker); John F. Kennedy Spoke Here (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Frankfurt am Main.

More about this memorial. This memorial was dedicated on October 24, 1964.

Also see . . . Paulskirche: Memorial for the Resistance Against Nazi Terror (Gedenkorte Frankfurt, in German). "...City councilors and magistrates decided in 1959 to commemorate fellow citizens who had resisted Nazi terror by their conscience and with their own lives with a memorial in a central location in the city. According to the wishes of the parliamentarians, the memorial, which was awarded in a competition among sculptors, was to be built on the western stairway of the Paulskirche.... In 1964 the award-winning design by the Munich sculptor Hans Wimmer, which represents a kneeling

Memorial for the Resistance Against Nazi Terror - third panel image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, September 23, 2019

2. Memorial for the Resistance Against Nazi Terror - third panel

Note the correction to "Riga-Salaspils".

figure, was realized. According to the jury, the limestone figure lifting her tied hands to the sky not only expresses "the subjugation of man to terror" but also "a revolt until the end". As suggested by the jury, 53 names of the most important concentration, labor education and internment camps as well as ghettos are engraved in alphabetical order on the sandstone plinth. With the repair at Riga-Salaspils a typo was corrected." (Submitted on December 31, 2019.)

Memorial for the Resistance Against Nazi Terror Marker - wide view image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, November 22, 2016

3. Memorial for the Resistance Against Nazi Terror Marker - wide view

View of northwest corner of Paulskirche, with memorial image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, November 22, 2016

4. View of northwest corner of Paulskirche, with memorial

Kneeling Figure Lifting Her Tied Hands to the Sky by Hans Wimmer image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, September 23, 2019

5. Kneeling Figure Lifting Her Tied Hands to the Sky by Hans Wimmer

Credits. This page was last revised on January 28, 2022. It was originally submitted on December 31, 2019, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California. This page has been viewed 416 times since then and 19 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on December 31, 2019, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.

Mahnmal für den Widerstand gegen NS-Terror⎯⎯⎯Memorial for the Resistance Against Nazi Terror

Mahnmal für den Widerstand gegen NS-Terror
⎯⎯⎯
Memorial for the Resistance Against Nazi Terror