Hans Frank is the younger son of Erika Irmgard Selma Frank, born on 31 March 1904 in Altenglan (Kusel district). She was the daughter of cattle dealer Moritz Frank and his wife Bertha, nee Sweet. Since 1928 she lived in Lampertheim. The brother of Hans Frank, Werner Frank, is also recorded in this Memorial Book. Hans was born in the Israelite Hospital in Frankfurt, Gagernstrasse 36. Eleven days after his birth he was housed in „Heim Isenburg“ of the Jewish Women's Association, probably together with his mother and his brother Werner. In the coming years he probably remained at the facility, while his mother and his brother returned to Lampertheim. The continuous record of the residents of the home, as far as they have been handed down, start in September 1935. Hans been recorded in the first list in March 1936. In April 1938 he was signed-out to Dinslaken. At that time he had reached the age of six and was of age for compulsory school attendance, which also was the time the boy had to leave „Heim Isenburg.“

At the start of school in Easter 1934 Hans was presumably moved to the Israelite orphanage in Dinslaken. During the November pogrom in 1938 Nazi thugs raided the home. Based on a report of their educator Yitzhak Sophoni Herz the children were driven out of the home through a lane of onlookers into a barn-like property in which they had to hold out without boarding first. A little later she found a temporary stay in an apprentice home of the Jewish community in Cologne. From there they were brought to Belgium and the Netherlands. Presumably Hans Frank was among these children. He was lucky because he was adopted by a couple living in the USA. Even before the start of World War II Hans Frank was able to leave Europe by ship from Rotterdam. On April 24, 1939, he arrived in New York, where he grew up under a new name in an adoptive family.

The mother of Hans Frank, Erika Frank, was abducted to the concentration camp Ravensbrück on October 18, 1940. Eighteen months later, on March 23, 1942, she was murdered in Bernburg Euthanasia Centre an der Saale. Werner Frank was deported from Berlin to the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, where his traces are lost.

The Memorial Book entry could be amended by the assistance of Adam Schütz, Bensheim, Hubert Simon, city archivist in Lampertheim, and Volker Ochs, Saarbrücken.

Other Sources: Stadtarchiv Neu-Isenburg; Institut für Stadtgeschichte Frankfurt am Main; ancestry.com: