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Walter Frankenstein: Not with Us

Eyewitness Talk On Experiences and Fates of German Jews during the Nazi Era (video recording available, in German)

For this series of talks, the Jewish Museum Berlin invited six eyewitnesses to tell a wider audience about their fates during the Nazi era. These witnesses are closely linked to the Jewish Museum Berlin as donors. A presentation of the objects, documents, or photographs they donated, readings from selected texts or the showing of film clips will precede the talks.

Walter Frankenstein went into hiding with his wife and their five-week-old son when deportation threatened. The family managed to survive with the help of friends in different hiding places.

recording available

Map with all buildings that belong to the Jewish Museum Berlin. The W. M. Blumenthal Academy is marked in green

Where

W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
Klaus Mangold Auditorium
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin (Opposite the Museum)

Video Recording of the eyewitness talk Walter Frankenstein – Not with us, 31 January 2018, in German; Jewish Museum Berlin

Walter Frankenstein

Walter Frankenstein was born in Flatow, West Prussia in 1924, and from 1936 he lived in the Auerbach Orphanage in Berlin. In 1938, he began a bricklaying apprenticeship at the Jewish community’s building college. Four years later, he married Leonie Rosner and their two sons were born in 1943 and 1944, at which time he had to perform forced labor. When the family was threatened with deportation, they went into hiding and survived. After the war ended, the family immigrated to Palestine and in the 1950s to Sweden.

This event is organized with the support of Berliner Sparkasse.

Porträt mit nachdenklicher Geste

Walter Frankenstein; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

Where, when, what?

  • When 31 Jan 2018
  • Where W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
    Klaus Mangold Auditorium

    Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
    (Opposite the Museum)

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Event Series: Eyewitness Talks (14)

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