Decades after Frankel made Cleveland home she prepares her speech for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum luncheon in Cleveland. She is being honored for her decades of support for the museum.
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Rina Frankel , 91, describes the moment she came face to face with a Nazi officer.
“I had a braid at the time and he caught my braid and pushed me down and said, ‘I know you’re running to tell your parents that I am coming,’” Frankel said. Rina Frankel of Cleveland, Ohio recognized for her decades of support to the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C. When a Nazi officer confronted her family, Frankel says her mother made a split-second decision.
“ always did everything at night. So, she pretended that I am her. She took me to the commandant and he got very angry and said ‘Why’d you bring this child,’” Frankel said. When Siberia, then under control by the Soviet Union joined the allies her family was freed and moved to Uzbekistan.
Her father was weak from working in frigid and tough condition in Siberia and died soon after the Frankel’s family moved to Uzbekistan. In 1949 she moved to Israel where Frankel met her husband Samuel, also a Holocaust survivor of Auschwitz. He died at 96. The two moved to Cleveland in 1954, where they set their roots, raising five children, many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Decades after Frankel made Cleveland home she prepares her speech for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum luncheon in Cleveland. She is being honored for her decades of support for the museum.
“We are facing as Jews difficult times. Antisemitism is at the highest levels since World War 2,” Frankel said. In November 2023, the month after Hamas attacked Israel, FBI data reports more than 850 anti-Jewish hate crimes in a single month. Reports have since dropped but remain far above where they were a decade ago.
Frankel says the answer to hate is telling her story. Frankel has told her story of survival for decades and says she is not done yet.
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