Overview
- Date
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1939 - 1946
- Locale
- Santo Domingo, The Dominican Republic
- Variant Locale
- Ciudad Trujillo
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Klaus Martin Frank
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Klaus Martin FrankSource Record ID: Collections: 1990.186.1
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- 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.
- Record last modified:
- 2007-08-09 00:00:00
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