Caricature of Fulgencio Batista from "World War II Personalities in Cartoons/Originals done for 'La Nacion' Santo Domingo, 1939-1946" by Klaus Martin Frank.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 27858

Overview

Caption: Caricature of Fulgencio Batista from "World War II Personalities in Cartoons/Originals done for 'La Nacion' Santo Domingo, 1939-1946" by Klaus Martin Frank.
Date: 1939 - 1946
Locale: Santo Domingo, The Dominican Republic
Variant Locale: Ciudad Trujillo
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Klaus Martin Frank

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Klaus Martin Frank

Source Record ID: Collections: 1990.186.1

Keyword: ART OF THE HOLOCAUST/WWII BATISTA, FULGENCIO CARTOONS/CARICATURES CARTOONS/CARICATURES (ANTI-NAZI) FRANK, KLAUS MARTIN
Photo Designation: ART OF THE HOLOCAUST -- Artists F

Artifact Geography: Washington, DC United States
Artifact Photographer: Max Reid
Biography: Klaus Martin Frank lived in Dortmund, Germany before the war. He was arrested on Kristallnacht. Only seventeen at the time, he was held as a hostage for the arrest of his father, who had travelled to Holland for the day. He and his father were sent by train to Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen the next day. He and his father were assigned to the tailor shop and sewed identification patches on uniforms. Five weeks after their arrival, Frank and his father were called out of formation, given civilian clothes, and sent to Berlin. There they learned that his father's sister, Martha, who lived in Copenhagen managed to have them released. They stayed in Denmark for about three months before immigrating with Frank's mother and another aunt to South America.