Heiman Jacob Frank was the eldest of the seven children of Izak Frank and Geertje Frenkel. He was born on 18 April 1893 in Winschoten and remained unmarried. He was a rag dealer by profession. Heiman Jacob Frank lived at Olieslagerstraat 4, where also the rag dealer Abraham Slager lived.
The family of Heiman Jacob consisted of his father, who was born in Winschoten in 1864 and died there on 12 December 1940; his mother, who also came from Winschoten, was born in 1873 and died there in 1930. Heiman Jacob's siblings were Fannij (1895-1946), Benjamin (1897-1915), David (1898- who died after 1976), Leentje died in 1901, only aged 3 months old, Eli (1902-1962) and Jakob (1904-1942) his wife and two children were murdered in Auschwitz.
Just as his youngest brother Jakob, also Heiman Jacob Frank was called for forced labor in some Jewish labourcamp in the North of the Netherlands, but it is unkown in which camp he stayed. However it became clear from notes on his registration card of the Jewish Council, that he was transferred from some labour camp on 31 August 1942 to Westerbork and upon arrival there that same day was put on transport to the so-called “labour camps” in Eastern Europe.
The transport of 31 August 1942 was a so-called “Cosel or Kozel transport”, the 2nd of that name. The deportation train included 560 deportees in total, of whom during a stop in Kozel, located ±80 km west from Auschwitz, 200 boys and men between 15 and 50 years were forced to leave the train. Those, who remained in the tranin were transported onwards to Auschwitz where some of them possibly still were put to work in the camp or else to be murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The 200 boys and men however were put to work in the surrounding labour camps of Upper Silesia
Heiman Jacob Frank then was 48 years old, but it is unknown were he eventually ended up and when and where precisely he lost his life. The Dutch authorities have established after the war, also based on testimonials of survivors and researches, that Heiman Jacob Frank no longer could be alive after 31 March 1944. The Municipality of Winschoten then was commissioned to draw up a death certificate for Heiman Jacob Frank, in which was stated that has died on 31 March 1944 (somewhere) in Mid-Europe.
Sources include the website openarchieven.nl; website allegroningers.nl/birth certificate of Heiman Jacob Frank; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Heiman Jacob Frank and the death certificate nr. 3 dated 8 February 1952 for Heiman Jacob Frank, made out in Winschoten.