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Regina Franks née Scherer was born in Hrubieszów, Poland on 15th July 1926. Through the 1930's she saw the rise of Nazism with its increasing oppression of the Jewish community. Her father, an engineer, town councillor and Jewish elder was asked to report to the local Council House on 28 November 1939. Along with others he was forced to dig his own grave before being shot. In 1942 her mother, sisters, brother, aunts and uncles were sent to the Belzek concentration camp from which none of them returned. Regina herself was imprisoned in Auschwitz before being sent on a 'death march' to Gros Rosen, then Mauthausen & Bergen Belson concentration camps. She was the only one of 160 on that march who survived. After WWII she married one of the British soldiers who liberated the camps. They came to Coventry in 1946 where they had a son and a daughter. Regina worked as a teacher, then as a medical social worker. An education pack with Regina's story was produced in 1995. Regina lived in Coventry until her untimely death in 1996. Regina's granddaughters spoke about her life at the UK National Holocaust Memorial Day event in Coventry in 2009.
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Regina's Scherer & Deutch family holocaust testimony records - Yad VaShem
Holocaust Memorial Day Debate in Parliament including reference to Regina Franks Testimony 29 Jan 2009
Testimony of Regina Franks by Peter Walters
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