Zeitzeuge im Gespräch: Walter Frankenstein

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. 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. The conversation with Walter Frankenstein was conducted by Aubrey Pomerance, head of the museum’s archive of the Jewish Museum Berlin on 31 January 2018, as part of the JMB event series “Eyewitness Talks.“ With the support of Berliner Sparkasse For more information on the event see https://www.jmberlin.de/en/eyewitness... Want more JMB? https://www.jmberlin.de/en/online-pro... Join us live next time! Click here for all JMB-events: https://www.jmberlin.de/en/calendar Stay up to date: JMB on Instagram:   / juedischesmuseumberlin   JMB on Twitter:   / jmberlin   JMB on Facebook:   / jmberlin   #EyewitnessTalk #JMBerlin