HANS FRANKENTHAL was born in 1926 in Schmalienberg in the Sauerland region of Germany. In 1943, his family was deported to Auschwitz, where his parents were sent at once to the gas chambers. Hans and his brother Ernst survived slave labor in the Monowitz and Mittelbau Dora concentration camps. Liberated by the Red Army in 1945, Frankenthal returned to Schmallenberg, where he ran a butcher shop and worked as a livestock dealer. He died in December 1999. JOHN A. BROADWIN is also the translator of Waiting for Hope: Jewish Displaced Persons in Post-World War II Germany (2001), Maybe Luck Isn't Just Chance (1998) and co-translator of Invisible Walls and To Remember is to Heal (1999) all published by Northwestern University Press.

HANS FRANKENTHAL was born in 1926 in Schmalienberg in the Sauerland region of Germany. In 1943, his family was deported to Auschwitz, where his parents were sent at once to the gas chambers. Hans and his brother Ernst survived slave labor in the Monowitz and Mittelbau Dora concentration camps. Liberated by the Red Army in 1945, Frankenthal returned to Schmallenberg, where he ran a butcher shop and worked as a livestock dealer. He died in December 1999. JOHN A. BROADWIN is also the translator of Waiting for Hope: Jewish Displaced Persons in Post-World War II Germany (2001), Maybe Luck Isn't Just Chance (1998) and co-translator of Invisible Walls and To Remember is to Heal (1999) all published by Northwestern University Press.

HANS FRANKENTHAL was born in 1926 in Schmalienberg in the Sauerland region of Germany. In 1943, his family was deported to Auschwitz, where his parents were sent at once to the gas chambers. Hans and his brother Ernst survived slave labor in the Monowitz and Mittelbau Dora concentration camps. Liberated by the Red Army in 1945, Frankenthal returned to Schmallenberg, where he ran a butcher shop and worked as a livestock dealer. He died in December 1999. JOHN A. BROADWIN is also the translator of Waiting for Hope: Jewish Displaced Persons in Post-World War II Germany (2001), Maybe Luck Isn't Just Chance (1998) and co-translator of Invisible Walls and To Remember is to Heal (1999) all published by Northwestern University Press.