Klaus Frank papers

Klaus Frank lived in Dortmund, Germany, before World War II. He was arrested on Kristallnacht (Nov. 9, 1938) when he was 17 and was used as a hostage for the arrest of his father who had travelled to the Netherlands for the day. He and his father were sent by train to Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen the next day. He was assigned to the tailor shop and sewed identification patches on uniforms with his father and cousin. Five weeks after their arrival, Klaus, his father, and his cousin were called out of formation, given civilian clothes, and sent to Berlin, Germany. There they learned that Klaus' paternal aunt, Martha, who lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, had managed to have them released. They stayed in Denmark for three months before emigrating with Frank's mother and another aunt to South America