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Medals handcrafted for Princess Beatrix whilst in hiding
From the Memoirs: A MEDAL FOR PRINCESS BEATRIX For 21 months, our family lived at 185, Galilaestraat, The Hague, all four of us cooped up in one room. We were hidden by trusted friends, whose vigilance postponed the day when we would be caught and sent off to concentration camps, and perhaps even to the gas chambers. In a way, our plight was similar to that of the family of Anne Frank and thousands of others who had no alternative but to stay under cover during the German invasion of Holland which began, without any provocation, on May 10, 1940. All of Holland was stunned by the ruthless acts of…
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Orphan raised by Christians seeks history
Recovering Lost Jews THE FRANKENHUIS COLLECTION1914-1918 1939-1945 M. FRANKENHUIS221 WEST 82ND STREETNEW YORK 24. N. YENDICOTT 2-6758 March 24, 1966 285 Riverside DriveNew York, N. Y. 10025 Dear Rabbi Lewin: I read with interest in the “American Examiner of March 17, 1966 the report of your address to the Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations concerning the problem of Jewish children who were raised as Christians, after being orphaned by the Nazis. As a Dutch Jew who, with my wife and two children, miraculously survived the holocaust including the torments of concentration camps and other forms of persecution, I am vitally concerned with this problem. I was among…
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Saving an Orphan from transport to Auschwitz
“He who saves a single life, is as if he saves an entire world”. Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:9; Babylonian Talmud Tractate Sanhedrin 37a MAURICE FRANKENHUIS221 WEST 82ND STREETNEW YORK 24, N. Y.ENDICOTT 2-6758 January 1, 1967 Dear Hetty, The story I have to tell you is no mystery, and you are well acquainted with its outlines. Besides information from many sources, you have received documents and reports from me from time to time. It is a story that belongs to all the world. In the vast, human drama that was enacted on the European stage during the years 1939 to 1945, the innocent, the weak, and the defenseless became the immortal…
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Justice Hans Hofmeyer
Letter to German lawyer in charge of first Auschwitz trial. THE FRANKENHUIS COLLECTION1914 – 1918 1939-1945 M. FRANKENHUIS221 WEST 82ND STREETNEW YORK 24, N.Y.ENDICOTT 2-6758 April 7, 1964 To his Excellency Hon. Justice Hans HofmeyerFrankfurt a/M Respectfully, Your Honor: The Press is daily reporting the essence of the trial in Frankfurt of the twenty-two defendants charged with homicide and unheard inhumanity at Auschwitz-Birkenau committed about twenty years ago. These reports engage the attention of civilized persons everywhere and arouse their revulsion at the sworn recital of savagery by them and the entire establishment. They are true symbols, which resulted in the satanic obliteration of about six million European Jews, of…
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Simon Wiesenthal
Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal corresponds with Maurice Frankenhuis requesting information DOKUMENTATIONSZENTRUM BUNDES JODISCHER VERFOLGTER DES NAZIREG?MES10 10 WIEN I, RUDOLFSP LATZ 7/111BAN KVERBINDUNGAILGEMEINE WIRTSCHAFTSBANK WIENKONTO NR. 306/00DRESDNER BANK, FRANKFURTKONTO NR. 18/236100WIEN, den December 19th,1967Telefon 63 90 932, 63 30 302 Mr. M. Frankenhuis221 West 82nd StreetNew York 24, N.Y.U SA Dear Mr. Frankenhuis, I am sure that you are informed about the collaborator of Eichmann, Erich R a j a (Rajakowitsch) whom I described in my book and has now a few proceedings against me.He can afford it as he is a multimillionaire. Raja has been condemned in Vienna to 2 1/2 years of jail for having send a cable…
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Is Paris Burning?
Notes by an Eye-Witness to the Burning of Rotterdam,an Assignment carried out by Lt. Col. von Choltitz IS PARIS BURNING? LARRY COLLINS and DOMINIQUE LAPIERRE SIMON AND SCHUSTER NEW YORK (General Dietrich von Choltitz, Fortress Commander) For this officer of irreproachable loyalty whom Hitler had decided to send to Paris, the war had begun at 5:30 on May 10, 1940. Jumping out of the first JU-52 to land on Rotterdam airport, Lt. Colonel von Choltitz, at the head of the 3rd Battalion of the 16th Regiment of Airborne Infantry, had that morning led the whole German blitzkrieg in the west. He was the first German officer to invade the Low…
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Dr. Hermann Eich
In conclusion, let me say that you and other German apologists today have no cause to point accusingly at the world for the fact of the unloved Germans. It might be more rational to accept them as the unlovable Germans. And if it is not already too late, might I suggest that the only thing left for Germans of good will is to undertake a program of re-education beginning with the youth before it becomes contaminated by the ideology of its fathers. Perhaps then the German people would have a chance to redeem themselves. Their history can claim no justification. See full letter from M. Frankenhuis below December 29, 1965…
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Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich corresponds with Maurice Frankenhuis requesting he provide vital data to Yad Vashem of names of victims. Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer known for her humanitarian efforts during the war, housing German and French exiles, providing financial support and even advocating their American citizenship. 1st October, 1965.Mr. Paul Breuer,Advertising Director, B.O.A.C.,Frankfurt on Main, GERMANY. Dear Mr. Breuer,In the national edition of the “New York Times” of 29th September last an article appeared with the headline: MARLENE DIETRICH AD GROUNDED IN GERMANY. The advertisement, showing Marlene Dietrich seated in one of the airline seats to illustrate elegance and comfort, was not accepted for publication in German periodicals,…
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Klaus Schutz
Maurice Frankenhuis takes issue with Mayor of Berlin’s remarks about America’s involvement in Vietnam. February 22, 1968Hon. Klaus SchutzMayor of BerlinBerlin, Germany Dear Mayor Schutz: In today’s issue of the New York Times there appeared an article describing the action of 150,000 West Berliners who on February 21st demonstrated their support of the United States, particularly with reference to its policy on Vietnam. Enclosed you will find a copy of this article in the New York Times. While it quotes you as saying, “We are linked with the American people in gratitude and friendship,” and other expressions complementary to America, you also indicate some doubt when you stated that there…
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Captain Otto Kretschmer
Maurice Frankenhuis’ letter to Captain Otto Kretschmer reacting to his remarks upon the launching of the first new submarine since the end of World War II. October 24, 1961Capt. Otto KretschmarCommander of the Federal Navy’s ForcesBonn, Germany Dear Captain Kretschmar: In the October 22, 1961, edition of The New York Times, I read an article, beginning, “The Germans, who developed the submarine into a major weapon of war, launched today the first submarine they had built since 1945.” There was also a photograph of this submarine and the comment, “She is said to be as fast underwater as Hitler’s wartime U-boats were on the surface.” The article also read: “U-Boat…