According to the Associated Press, the foundation of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial said Frankenstein died in Stockholm.
Who is Walter Frankenstein?
Born in 1924, Frankenstein is a Jewish family that he praised from Flatow, West Prussia, which is part of Germany but now Poland.
According to the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Frankenstein received a lot of help from his uncle in 1936, when he did not allow him to go to the town’s public schools because of the Jewish people. His mother asked him to transfer to Berlin, where he found his new residence at the Orphanage of Auerbach. This happened nearly three years after the Nazis came to power.
After moving the base to Berlin, he continued his school education and received bricklayer training. This orphanage is where Frankenstein first met his then-wife, Leonie Rosner.
When Frankenstein entered the School of Architecture and Architectural Technology in the Jewish community, he soon began training and became Mason in 1938. However, the Nazis prevented him from becoming an architect. On November 9, 1938, Frankenstein witnessed Kristallnacht, the Jews being attacked by the Nazis in Germany and Austria. At least 91 people were killed during this period, burning more than 1,400 synagogues and destroying nearly 7,500 Jews.
In an interview with the Associated Press in 2018, Frankenstein recalled that he was 14 years old, standing on the roof of an orphanage and seeing a fire in an urban area.
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Walter Frankenstein’s family is hidden in Berlin
Starting in 1941, Frankenstein was recruited by the Nazis and was often threatened by deportation in the region.
A year after that, he married Leonie in 1942, and the couple welcomed their first child together in 1943 – son Peter-uri.
Just five weeks after the child was born, Frankenstein and his family were forced to hide in the city. At that time, he took refuge in the residence of his friends and even lived in the ruins of Nazi-bombed buildings.
Their second child, Michael, was born in 1944, and the family managed to survive in the last weeks of the war in April 1945.
During the liberation, the two children were one of the youngest of German Jewish children who survived the Berlin War. Overall, the couple is believed to have survived more than two years of hiding in Berlin.
In the mid-1950s, the family moved to Sweden, and Frankenstein went to Germany many times, once spent time talking to his children about his life.
In 2014, he received the order of the highest honor in Germany.
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FAQ
1.How many Jews lived in Berlin during World War II?
When the Nazis came to power in 1933, nearly 160,500 Jews lived in Berlin. However, by the end of World War II, the population had dropped to about 7,000.
2. How many people were killed in the Holocaust?
About 6 million European Jews were murdered by the Nazis.
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