Stumbling block for Berthold Kahn

Berthold Kahn was born in Frankfurt on March 13, 1879. In 1913, he married the Protestant Christian Hedwig Vulter, born on February 22, 1887 in Arnstadt, Thuringia. Berthold Kahn was a salesman by profession. He first lived with his wife in Frankfurt, then in Mühlheim. In 1937, he moved with her to Weinbergstraße 11 in Offenbach-Bieber, where the couple had a good relationship with the Social Democrat landlord Hans Oskar Rothe and his wife Anna Rothe. According to statements made by Mrs. Rothe in 2016, her husband opposed the request of a Bieber police officer and NSDAP member to evict the Kahn couple from their home in 1938.

Shortly after the pogrom night, Berthold Kahn was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp from November 16 to December 21, 1938. After their release, the couple lived in Bieber until February 1939. Due to hostility and persecution from national-socialist-minded Bieber residents in Weinbergstraße, Berthold Kahn and his wife left the apartment and moved to Frankfurt.

The Rothe couple never heard from the Kahn family again. It is not known exactly when Berthold Kahn was deported from Frankfurt.
According to the "Memorial Book of the Victims of National Socialism", Berthold Kahn was sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp in 1943, where he was declared dead on November 21.