David Frankfurter

David Frankfurter was a Croatian Jew known for assassinating Swiss branch leader of the German NSDAP Wilhelm Gustloff in 1936 in Davos, Switzerland.

Frankfurter was born in Daruvar, Croatia , to a Jewish family, father Mavro and mother Rebekka Frankfurter. His father was rabbi in Daruvar and later the chief rabbi in Vinkovci. The Frankfurter family moved to Vinkovci in 1914. Frankfurter was a sickly child and suffered an incurable periostitis for which he underwent seven operations between the ages of six and twentythree his doctors feared he would not live a normal lifespan. He graduated from elementary and later secondary school, in 1929, with high marks. After completing his basic education he began a study of medicine. His father sent him to Germany to study dentistry first in Leipzig and then in 1931 in the town of his ancestors, Frankfurt.

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