Oral history interview with Frank Reiss

Frank Reiss was born in 1935 in Berlin, Germany and describes his family; his family’s decision to flee to Czechoslovakia in 1938; his mother’s execution for her work in the Warsaw underground; his father arranging for him to live with a Jewish family who had “bought” their protection; being deported to a camp in Žilina, Czechoslovakia before they could go into hiding; being released from the camp with the help of Arthur Porges, a friend of the family who had connections in the camp; going into hiding in 1943 in the Slovakian village of Sarfia and then into the woods with the Porges family; being sheltered by a Gentile but getting captured by the SS early in 1944; their deportation to a prison in Nitra, a camp in Sered, Czechoslovakia and finally to Theresienstadt in 1945; and the Red Army liberation him at Theresienstadt in May 1945.