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Told by the grandson of the head of the family, this is the gripping odyssey of another Frank family from the deceptively good life of Berlin in the 1920s, through the rise of Hitler and their flight to apparently safe Holland, the nightmarish ordeal of their thousand-day-long... read more

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Like her husband, Myrtil, Flory Frank belonged to both the most and the least fortunate generation of German Jews: the most fortunate because theirs, the generation that was born at the end of the nineteenth century and came of age around the time of the First World War, was the first to enjoy the fruits of full emancipation, including success in business and public life; the least because that emancipation coincided with the rise of Adolf Hitler.

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  1. Gordon F. Sander (Author)
 

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