Henry Frankel

Henry Frankel (M / Germany, 1933), Holocaust survivor

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Biography

Henry Frankel, the current President of One Thousand Children, was born in Ulm, Germany in June 1933, six months after Hitler came to power. He arrived in New York City as an unaccompanied child at the age of six and a half on February 29, 1940, with the help of the German Jewish Children’s Aid Society, which brought Henry to live with the Hoffberger family in Baltimore, Maryland. Henry was reunited with his mother in New York City in September 1941, but his father was killed in Riga, Latvia, in December of that same year.

Henry received his B.S. degree from City College of New York, and his M.A. in Chemistry at Lehigh University. He worked at IBM in Burlington, VT, where he was elected school commissioner, developed a solid waste plan for Chittenden County, VT, served as president of the Council of Vermont Jews and published a community newspaper. After taking early retirement from IBM, Henry worked at the Center for Plastic Recycling Research at Rutgers University in New Jersey as both a researcher and professor.