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Oral history interview with Jack Frank

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1989.346.16 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0016

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    Oral history interview with Jack Frank

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Rabbi Jack Frank, born in 1926 in Frankfurt, Germany, describes his family history; his family’s involvement with the Orthodox Jewish community in the suburb Bergen-Enkheim; his education; being ostracized as a child because he was Jewish; experiencing antisemitism; his family’s plans to immigrate to the United States; hiding in their home Kristallnacht and going on the following day to Anspach, where his grandparents lived; his father’s arrest during Kristallnacht and his deportation to Buchenwald, from which he was released four weeks later; hearing about his father’s experiences in Buchenwald from others; the destruction of the synagogue in Bergen-Enkheim; living in an orphanage with his sister until they went to England in September 1939; the beginning of the war; celebrating his bar mitzvah in the orphanage in Frankfurt; going to England with his mother, father, sister, and aunt; remaining in England six months before going to Chicago, IL; the fates of his extended family members; the impact Kristallnacht had on him; and visiting Germany years after the war.
    Interviewee
    Jack Frank
    Date
    interview:  1986 December 09
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Frank, Jack, 1926-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois (now Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center) conducted the interview with Jack Frank on December 9, 1986. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received the tape of the interview from the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois on December 12, 1989.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:07:03
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