Author: KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 22/04/2025 | 13:40:09
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Walter Frankenstein survived the Holocaust by hiding in Berlin with his wife and infant children. The foundation that oversees Berlin’s Holocaust memorial also confirmed that he died Monday in Stockholm. Frankenstein was born in 1924 in Flatow in what is now Poland but was then part of Germany. Frankenstein’s children were among the youngest of only 25 Jewish children who had survived in Berlin. In 1933, when Berlin was liberated by the Soviet Red Army, around 160,500 Jews lived in Germany. By the end of World War II in 1945 their numbers had diminished to about 7,000 through emigration and extermination. In 2018, Frankenstein became an honorary member of the club with the membership number 1924. Every time Frankenstein traveled to Berlin in his later years, he brought along the small blue case containing the Order of Merit. Inside the case’s lid he had attached the first “mark” he got from the Germans: the yellow badge, or Jewish star.
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