Isaac Frankel testimony
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Isaac Frankel
Biographical History
Isaac Frankel was a German Jew and survivor of the Holocaust. He was deported to German-occupied Poland with his family and was eventually imprisoned in Buchenwald. After liberation he traveled to Italy and lived in various Italian cities before immigrating to the United States in 1947.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The first testimony (original copy) was written on 1 Jan 1991. The second testimony (photocopy) is undated. Both testimonies were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives by Isaac Frankel in June 1987.
Scope and Content
Includes two testimonies (one original and one photocopy) written by Isaac Frankel. Both testimonies are attached to letters that summarize Mr. Frankel's life as a Holocaust survivor. The testimonies describe Frankel's experiences of deportation, the loss of his young family, his imprisonment in ghettos and forced labor camps, his survival of several selections, and his survival of Buchenwald. The second testimony is not a copy of the first but contains similar information.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Frankel, Isaac.
Corporate Bodies
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Great Britain. Army. Jewish Brigade
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Police.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Częstochowa (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Forced labor.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Hiding places.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Italy.
- False personation.
- Executions and executioners.
- Poland.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document