... Why did Himmler, the leader of the SS, release Frankenberg’s father from the death camp Auschwitz? • What was in Hitler’s personal file, kept by ... ...did Himmler, the leader of the SS, release Frankenberg’s father from the death camp Auschwitz? • What was in Hitler’s personal file, kept by the N... ...ons are: • Leo Frankenberg the investigative journalist and his grandfather, the Auschwitz inmate, Ernst Frankenberg, are fictional characters. ... ...s the date in a bulky book. Next we exit the block and I am marched away from the camp, along the now-deserted railway ramp, through the electrifi... ...in my right arm. As I crumble, the last thing I see is the crooked sign that says: “Auschwitz II – Birkenau”. And then there’s darkness. Chapter... ...nflagration, the Holocaust. After the War, they met as two near-skeletons in a DP camp - that’s a Displaced Persons facility, often only marginall... ... DP camp - that’s a Displaced Persons facility, often only marginally better than a concentration camp. They clung to each other in a hurried act of... ...smiling, robotically efficient. It gave me the chills. Add to that the largest concentration of yarmulkes and streimels this side of Brooklyn a... ...chambers and cell-like appendages. The whole edifice was a stylized rendition of a concentration camp. The photographs of dead people and gory atroc...