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Never stop learning
because life never
stops teaching
the watch ticking rhythmically.

Th ough the watch went silent the next morning, two weeks
later, the same thing happened. Upon showing his mother Ruth
Frank the watch stand, Bank once again noticed the watch
ticking again, and then stopping, remaining still for the next
44 years.

“Th e message of the watch is survival,” Bank said.

Like his grandfather before him, Bank gave his grandson
Hayden the watch and the Tree of Sorrow for his bar mitzvah
on Oct. 24. Along with the watch, Bank also gave Hayden the
responsibility of carrying on the memory of the Holocaust, the
same responsibility Ludwig Frank passed down to his grandson
through the watch.

Bank describes himself as “growing up in the shadow of the
Holocaust,” a phrase that doubles as the subtitle of his newest
book ‘Tree of Sorrow,’ published by Auctus Publishers in
July 2021.

Th ough a lawyer for most of his life, Bank has been writing
since the age of 12. He lived in Strawberry Mansion and went
to grade school in Mt. Airy before attending Temple University
and later University of Pennsylvania, where he studied law.

Th roughout school, Bank had a passion for writing.

Th e story of his grandfather’s watch was fi rst published in
Th e Jewish Exponent in 1978 and is again recounted in ‘Tree
of Sorrow.’
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Richard Bank with his “oma” and “opa” when he was 3
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When Hayden Bank visited his great-grandmother’s house, he was fascinated with a 1914 photograph of the Frank family.
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