Background
Frankfurter was born in Holešov, Czechoslovakian Republic (then part of Austro-Hungarian Empire) on May 15, 1875 to David and Katerina Frankfurter.
Frankfurter was born in Holešov, Czechoslovakian Republic (then part of Austro-Hungarian Empire) on May 15, 1875 to David and Katerina Frankfurter.
Frankfurter family lived in Daruvar where Frankfurter was a rabbi. On the eve of World War I he moved with his family to Vinkovci where he was appointed as rabbi, and later in 1914 as Chief rabbi. Frankfurter was fluent in German, Polish, Hebrew and Croatian.
In Frankfurter household German and Hebrew was spoken.
During the construction of Nova ulica (New street) in Vinkovci, Frankfurter built a family mansion (now street of Jurja Dalmatinca and street of Vladimir Nazor). Frankfurter hair turned grey overnight when he heard of the assassination.
During World World War II and the Nazi occupation of Vinkovci in 1941, Frankfurter was made to stand on a table while the German soldiers spat in his face, pulled out the hair from his long beard, and struck him with their rifle butts.