Anna Stamm: Unpublished poem

<p>The author, Anna Stamm, lived in Frankfurt am Main. She was a friend of the parents of Hilde Mayer (d. 2015), a former volunteer at the Wiener Library. She was widowed with an only son, Ernst, who was a doctor. In 1934-1935 he worked as a physician at the Jewish hospital, Gagerstrasse, Frankfurt am Main.</p><p>They were both deported to Terezin and at some point the son was deported further, presumably to his death. Anna never heard from him again.</p><p>At the end of the war Anna, together with some othr inmates from Terezin, was sent to Switzerland and eventually went to the USA via London to join some family members.</p>