Jakob frenkiel biography of martin

Auschwitz 1 Entrance

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40 years after the harrowing discovery of the concentration and extermination camps of Nazi Germany, Jakob Frienkel still remembers his experience at Auschwitz in Poland.

“I spent the worst 17 months of my life there” says Jakob, “you don’t just forget that kind of an experience”.

Born in a religious Jewish family, Jakob grew up in Gabin, 50 miles west of Warsaw.

Living close to the synag