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Oral history interview with John Franklin

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.291 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0291

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    Oral history interview with John Franklin

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    John Franklin (né Hans Frankenthal), born in July 2, 1930 in Würzburg, Germany, discusses his parents Max and Clara Frankenthal and his older brother Danner; life in Würzburg; fleeing with his family to Holland after Kristallnacht; his brother escaping to the United States in 1938 with the support of his maternal uncle and changing his name to Warren Franklin; living in a small town in the interior of Holland from 1938 until 1942; being sent with other Jews to Amsterdam; being deported with his parents in the middle of 1943 to Westerbork; being deported with his father shortly afterward to Bergen-Belsen; being loaded into a transport train from Bergen-Belsen to Theresienstadt with his father in 1945; the train never arriving at its destination and later being referred to as the Lost Train; his father dying in route and being buried in a mass grave; the train stopping in Troebitz, in the Russian zone, where the prisoners were liberated by Russian Cossacks; returning to Holland and reuniting with his mother, who had been in Auschwitz, and his grandmother, who had spent the war years hidden in Holland; his grandmother’s death in 1946; immigrating with his mother to the United States in 1948; joining his brother and uncle in San Francisco, CA in 1948; being educated as a teacher; teaching high school economics and political science in San Francisco public schools; getting married at age 57; and his two stepchildren.
    Interviewee
    John Franklin
    Interviewer
    Tami Benau
    Date
    interview:  1994 December 08
    interview:  1995 October 06
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Franklin, John.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with John Franklin on December 8, 1994 and October 6, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in March 2001.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:44:36
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