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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…