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Miriam Ahrend

Frankfurt am Main, – Sobibor,

Reached the age of 14 years

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About Mirjam Ahrend

This person lived alone or no information about family members is known or traceable.

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Miriam Ahrend

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Name incorrect?

Most likely the girl's name was Miriam (possibly Mirjam). This is the name that appears on most official/government documents1 2, including the death certificate3; it's also used for the Page of Testimony submitted to Yad Vashem by a cousin who knew her in Frankfurt4. Her friend Jutta Levitus refers to her as Mirjam Ahrend in her memoir5.

The current name, Mirian, doesn't seem to be supported by a…

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Bernhard, Miriam, and Benjamin Ahrend

The Ahrend siblings were all born in Frankfurt am Main: Bernhard in 1927, Miriam exactly one year later, and Benjamin in 1930. Most of their years in Frankfurt were spent at Gwinnerstrasse 22 in the city's Ostend, though the family was living at Ostendstrasse 63 by 1938.1

The father, Sigmund, a war veteran2 and wholesaler, was arrested in the Arbeitsscheu Reich raids of June 1938 and sent to Buche…

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