The hospital was not completely destroyed during the war, like many other buildings in Frankfurt. After the war, it was restored and modernized. It is still in use as a hospital.
Lieselotte was born on July 9, 1929 at the Bürgerhospital on Nibelungenallee in Frankfurt am Main.
A month earlier, on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was born in this hospital.
Germany had enjoyed a few years of reasonable stability, but politically there was great division.
Hitler's NSDAP had received only 2.6% of the vote in 1928.
Frankfurt am Main, July 13, 1929
The administration of the Bürgerhospital in Frankfurt am Main announced that a girl was born to
Kätchen Sigmund, née Kaufmann, wife of the merchant Ernst Sigmund, residing with her husband in Worms on the Rhine, at Nibelungenallee 37-41 in Frankfurt am Main, on July 9, 1929, at 1:45 a.m., and that the child was given the first name Lieselotte.
Read aloud, approved, and by the Registrar acting on behalf of Wink
Certified as correct in the main register. Frankfurt am Main, July 13, 1929
The Registrar acting on behalf of Wink
Lieselotte was born on July 9, 1929; the certificate was drawn up on July 13, 1929.
Small silver egg cup and spoon with the name Lieselotte engraved on them. These were given as a gift upon the birth of Lieselotte in 1929.
Just before going into hiding, valuable objects such as these were entrusted to the Kamphorst family, with whom the Sigmund family was to go into hiding.
The cup and a silver cutlery set are now in the possession of the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam.