JTA — Max Frankel, the former executive editor of The New York Times who fled the Nazis as a child, died at 94.

Frankel died Sunday at his Manhattan home, according to an obituary in the Times.

Frankel began working at The New York Times at age 19 as the Columbia University campus correspondent and spent more than 40 years at the paper as a reporter, editor and columnist. He ran the paper from 1986 to 1994.

His career at the paper began less than a decade after his family escaped the Holocaust. Born to Jewish parents in Gera, Germany in 1930, eight years later Frankel was deported with his parents to Poland. His mother was later able to obtain rare US visas for herself and Max.

They were reunited with his father, who had been imprisoned in the Soviet Union, and settled in Manhattan, in the German-Jewish community of Washington Heights. He spoke German, Polish, and Yiddish, and was conversationally proficient in Russian, French, and Spanish, according to The New York........

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