Max Frankel, the former executive editor of the New York Times who fled the Nazis as a child, has died at the age of 94. He died on Sunday at his Manhattan home, according to an obituary in the Times. Born to Jewish parents in Gera, Germany, in 1930, eight years later Frankel was deported with his parents to Poland. He spoke German, Polish and Yiddish, and was conversationally proficient in Russian, French and Spanish, according to the Times. He is survived by his wife Joyce Purnick, a former reporter and editor at the Times, and his three children and six grandchildren.
