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[1104] Lotte Stern Alley

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The once nameless alley between Rathausgasse and Kellereigasse was officially named "Lotte Stern Alley" in 2019. Lotte Stern, born on June 8, 1925, is the name of the youngest Jewish victim of the Nazi regime. She lived on Hauptstraße. After the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, her father managed to bring his 13-year-old daughter Lotte to the Netherlands in January 1939 through a so-called Kindertransport – seeking safety. After the occupation of the Netherlands in May 1940, Lotte was arrested on February 12, 1942, in a Dutch children's home and taken to the transit camp Westerbork, south of Groningen. According to research by her Dutch biographer, Miriam Keesing, Lotte was deported to Auschwitz on July 15, 1942, along with fifty other Jewish children from the Westerbork children's home and was killed on the day of their arrival, July 17, 1942. The commander of the Westerbork camp had dismissed the caregivers of the children with the cynical remark that there were also children's homes in Auschwitz.