US EditionWalter Frankenstein, who survived the Holocaust by hiding in Berlin, dies at 100
- Walter Frankenstein, who survived the Holocaust, has died at the age of 100.
- Only 1,700 of the up to 7,000 Berlin Jews who went into hiding survived, with Frankenstein's children among only 25 Jewish children who survived in Berlin in 1945.
- After World War II, the Frankensteins immigrated to Palestine, which later became Israel.
- Frankenstein, a noted speaker, received Germany's Order of Merit in 2014 and stated, 'The first one marked me, the second one honored me.
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He and his family hid from the Nazis during the Second World War, later emigrated to Palestine and fought in the Israeli War of Independence. Now Holocaust survivor Walter Frankenstein died on Easter Monday at the age of 100 in his hometown of Sweden.
As a child, Walter Frankenstein ends up in a Berlin orphanage for Jewish children in 1936. Later, he and his family dive into the city and thus escape the terror of the Nazis. Until his old age, he opposes anti-Semitism. Frankenstein has now died in Sweden.
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