High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hans Frankenthal (July 15, 1926, Schmallenberg, Westphalia – December 22, 1999) was a German Jew who was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland in 1943. Having survived the Holocaust along with his brother Emil, Frankenthal returned to his home in Germany where he experienced the common disbelief and denial of Nazi war crimes.