Presented by The Foundation of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation
Elisabeth G. Frank
In 1960 I came to New York on a two- year contract for an international firm headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. I never left. Just a few years later in 1964, I made the most decisive, far- reaching, and over-arching decision and change of my life. I became a Jew. I vividly remember how it happened. I was sitting on a bench at Battery Park in Lower Manhattan at lunchtime, watching ferries coming and going and observing the noisy seagulls. I suddenly had an epiphany. I realized I was living amongst a sizeable Jewish community and yet was working for a German company. At that moment, I was overwhelmed with guilt at being born a German. I cried and began
Elisabeth and her husband, Stephen Frank, taken in Jerusalem on the Greater Miami Jewish Federation 1991 Israel Mission
to look for excuses–that I was only a child growing up in Nazi Germany, that I had not known about the atrocities, etc. It was then that I vowed to do everything in my power to help Jews and do restitution. I just didn’t know then how I would
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