Frankfurt Stories Götz / Günther family
Holbeinstraße 8, 60596 Frankfurt am Main
The sisters Renate Osthoff (born 1922) and Ursula “Ulli” Steltzer (born 1923–2018), née Götz, were born and raised here at Holbeinstraße 8. The girls’ grandfather was the architect Alfred Günther, who designed and built the house for his family in 1903. His daughter Lilli married her fellow student Oswald Götz in 1921. He was of Jewish descent and worked as an art curator at the Städel Museum until 1938. After the Nazis seized power, he was able to emigrate to the USA in 1938, leaving his wife and children behind in Frankfurt. His sister, his beloved Aunt Elsbet, and his mother Dorothea were unable to flee and were deported from Hamburg to Theresienstadt in 1944. Elsbet Götz was transferred to Auschwitz, where she was murdered in 1945. Today, a Stolperstein in Hamburg in front of her former home commemorates Elsbet Götz
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MEMORIAL FILM dedicated to the Götz family
In this short film, Jenny S. Steltzer recalls the childhood of her grandmother Ulli Steltzer and her great-aunt Renate Osthoff, both née Götz. Read from the memoirs of Renate Götz.
