For years, Walter Frankenstein, a German Jew living in Berlin, watched as the city’s once thriving Jewish population disappeared. Tens of thousands of Jewish Berliners emigrated in the 1930s amid ...

Later in life, Walter Frankenstein returned to Germany several times a year. He often talked to schoolchildren about his life and in 2014, he received Germany’s highest honor, the Order of Merit.

During World War II, thousands of Jews evaded the Nazis in Berlin, moving from place to place and taking refuge wherever they could. One of them, Walter Frankenstein, died in April at age 100.

Walter Frankenstein, who survived the Holocaust by hiding in Berlin with his wife and infant children, has died. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.

During World War II, thousands of Jews evaded the Nazis in Berlin, moving from place to place and taking refuge wherever they could. One of them, Walter Frankenstein, died in April at age 100.

BERLIN (AP) — Walter Frankenstein, who survived the Holocaust by hiding in Berlin with his wife and infant children and spent his later years educating young people to keep the events alive in ...