Josef Frank (25 February 1909, Prostějov – 3 December 1952, Prague) was a Czech communist politician.
Biography Between 1939 and 1945 he was imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp."Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945" (A Guide to the Permanent Historical Exhibition) by Harry Stein, Wallstein, 2005.
In 1952 he was expelled from the party. He was subsequently arrested and sentenced to death by hanging in the Slánský trial, a show trial orchestrated from Moscow.Czechoslovak Rehabilitations Analysis, Blinken Open Society Archives Retrieved on 5 October 2009 In 1968 he was made a Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in memoriam."Czechoslovak orders and medals" Retrieved on 5 October 2009
Frank is the central character of Howard Brenton's 1976 play Weapons of Happiness, in which he is imagined not dead, but rather living in exile."Literary Encyclopedia: Weapons of Happiness" Retrieved on 5 October 2009
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