One of Germany’s most poignant memorials to victims of the Holocaust sits on Börneplatz in Frankfurt, four blocks north of the Main. The memorial sits on land that had been home to Frankfurt’s Jewish community — one of the largest in Germany — for centuries. The site consists of several components. At its center stands a stone cube, 5 meters by 5 meters (about 16 feet by 16 feet), built from remnants of buildings in the Judengasse, the old Jewish Ghetto. A steel band outlines part of the footprint of…
