Mavro Frankfurter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Croatian rabbi
Date of Birth: 15-May-1875
Place of Birth: Holešov, Zlín Region, Czech Republic
Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001
Profession: rabbi
Nationality: Czech Republic
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Mavro Frankfurter
- Mavro "Moše" Frankfurter (1875–1942) was a known Croatian and Vinkovci rabbi who was killed during the Holocaust at the Jasenovac concentration camp. Moshe (Moritz) Frankfurter was born in Holešov, Czech Republic (then part of Austro-Hungarian Empire) on 15 May 1875 to David and Katerina Frankfurter.
- He was married to Rebekka-Rivka (née Figel) Frankfurter, with whom he had three children: daughter Ruth and two sons, David and Alfons (later Avraham).
- Frankfurter family lived in Daruvar where Frankfurter was a rabbi.
- On the eve of World War I he moved with his family to Vinkovci where he was appointed as rabbi, and later in 1914 as Chief rabbi.
- Frankfurter was fluent in German, Polish, Hebrew and Croatian.
- In Frankfurter household German and Hebrew was spoken.
- During the construction of Nova ulica (New street) in Vinkovci, Frankfurter built a family mansion (now street of Jurja Dalmatinca and street of Vladimir Nazor).
- From 1914 to 1941, in addition to the regular activities at the Jewish community of Vinkovci and Vinkovci Synagogue, Frankfurter worked as a Judaism teacher at the Vinkovci Gymnasium.
- In 1936 his son David assassinated Swiss branch leader of the German NSDAP Wilhelm Gustloff in Davos, Switzerland.
- Frankfurter hair turned grey overnight when he heard of the assassination.
- He visited his son in prison and asked him "...
- who actually needed this?".
- During World War II and the Nazi occupation of Vinkovci in 1941, Frankfurter was made to stand on a table while the German soldiers spat in his face, pulled out the hair from his long beard, and struck him with their rifle butts.
- Frankfurter and his wife were killed in 1942 by Ustaše at the Jasenovac concentration camp.
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