When the Second World War began, also Alexander Frank was still unmarried, just like his brother Andries, but he never married. Andries howver got married still in August 1942. Their sister Hanna Rachel was married already in 1938.
Alexander Frank was born in Middelburg (province of Zeeland) on 1 October 1923. With his parents he moved with them to the different places in The Netherlands and came back from Bergen (Noord Holland) to Amsterdam with his family in 1932.
The Frank family lived then at a number of addresses in town, so also Alexander and on 7 March 1939 the family moved in at the address Plantage Franschelaan 11 parterre, (this lane was renamed after the war into Henri Polaklaan). Alexander was a house servant by profession and he worked also as house servant in the Retirement Home Frank, which was established there. Therefore, he too was exempted from deportation until further notice, just like the other members of the Frank family.
Yet Alexander moved again: on 5 March 1943 to President Brandstraat 34 3rd floor in the Transvaal district of Amsterdam-East, where he came living in with the Hartog Wolder family, (man, wife and daughter), who had to move to Amsterdam-East on 22 December 1942, leaving mandatory their house in the Biesboschstraat 48 2nd floor. The Hartog Wolder family was deported 14 September 1943 to Auschwitz and on arrival there on 17 September 1943 immediately killed.
Alexander Frank however, just like all other family members, was also taken 4 February 1943 to Westerbork and he should be deported to Auschwitz on 9 February. This date has been postponed to 16 February 1943 but for unknown reasons, his scheduled deportation to Auschwitz was cancelled again. Eventually Alexander ended up in concentration camp Vught and returned in Westerbork 25 May 1943. On 1 June he was put on transport to Sobibor, together with another over 3000 deportees and on arrival there on 4 June 1943 Alexander Frank was immediately killed.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Hartog Frank, archive cards of Hartog Frank, Cato Ossendrijver, Hanna Rachel Frank, Andries Frank and Alexander Frank; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Alexander Frank and Hartog Wolder, Suzanne Wolder-van Rijn and Esther Wolder; the Wikipedia website Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl and the Amsterdam residence card of President Brandstraat 34.