Sights and attractions, experience Museum Judengasse in Frankfurt-am-Main

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Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse 10, Borneplatz
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The Museum Judengasse, along the northeastern boundaries of the old city fortifications, is the annexe to the Jüdisches Museum. On display here are remains of ritual baths and houses from the Jewish ghetto, which was destroyed by the Nazis. Behind the Museum Judengasse, the western wall of the Jewish Cemetery is a remarkable memorial studded with metal cubes bearing the names of all the Frankfurt-born Jews murdered during the Holocaust.

The cubes allow visitors to place stones or pebbles, a Jewish tradition that shows that a grave is tended and the person not forgotten.

The Museum Judengasse preserves aspects of the old Jewish ghetto, and the adjacent Jewish cemetery includes a Holocaust memorial. Frankfurt's experience of the Holocaust is told in the Jüdisches Museum over in the west of the city, housed in the grand former home of the Rothschilds.

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As a Holocaust Memorial, one would think you could highlight it just a bit more then mentioning it twice in your review of the Judengasse but in a way so that it sounds like 2 different things. It is an important memorial and deserves a catagory of its own, not just an "oh by the way, next door to the museum is a holocaust memorial". No mention of Anne Franks name being on it, nor how many citizens names are on it (11,000 by the way), nothing about the medieval Jewish cemetery it surrounds. Plus it is a 3 sided wall, not just a wall on the west side of the cemetery. This is a very moving memorial, please honor it as such. The ghetto was NOT destroyed by the nazis. It was destroyed during a fire from bombing by the French in 1792. The nazis burned the synagogue down that is located where the Judengasse museum is located, on "The Night of Broken Glass" or Kristall Nacht in 1938. The outline of this synagogue is behind the museum. The museum was built over the foundations from the houses that were in the ghetto and were found when they built the office building that is now there.