{geni:about_me} Frank was born to a Czech Jewish family in Dresden, studied engineering at the University of Munich (1932) and earned an Ph.D. in electrcial engineering from University of Vienna in 1936. Nov 9, 1938 he was arrested by the Nazis and later released. He and his family fled Germany in late Aug. 1939, only to be trapped by the outbreak of war in Holland. Adelaide Kussy, a teacher and a member of the Dutch resistance assisted Frank and his family in Nazi-occupied Holland during the early 1940s. Frank, his brother Victor, and their mother were arrested by the Nazis in Nov. 1942 and sent to Westerbork camp. In Apr. 1943, they were transported to Terezín camp, where they slave labored until Sep. 1944. In Sep-Oct 1944, the Kussys were sent in boxcars to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Frank was the sole survivor in the family, and was at Birkenau and Gleiwitz (an Auschwitz sub-camp), until the Red Army liberated him at Blechammer (another sub-camp), in Jan 1945. Following the war, Adelaide and Frank reunited, returned to Dresden, East Germany, built a new life and family together, then migrated with their children to the USA duringthe early 1950's. Frank Kussy had a successful career as an engineer, authored several books, and served as a member of the International Executive Service Corps, consulting in Egypt and Zimbabwe. He has spoken of his Holocaust experiences at James Madison College and Michigan State University on several occasions and was the subject of a senior thesis, "My Grandfather's Stories" written by his granddaughter at James Madison College in 1998