He's writing Kamala Harris' DNC speech. He also wrote a book on Holocaust survivors

The man writing Kamala Harris’ acceptance speech is the grandson of Holocaust survivors and the author of a book about what he calls “intergenerational trauma.”

Adam Frankel is the lead writer on the speech Kamala Harris will give Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention, when she is expected to accept the party’s nomination for president, according to The New York Times.

Frankel, 43, was previously a speechwriter for former President Barack Obama. Since 2021, he has served as an adviser to Harris in the vice president’s office.

His maternal grandfather survived Dachau and other concentration camps. His maternal grandmother got through the war hiding in a forest in Eastern Europe with Jewish resistance fighters.

In 2019, Frankel published The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing about their ordeals and how that impacted their family across generations. His mother struggled with mental health issues, and when he was 25, she told him that the man he believed was his father was not his biological dad. That turned out to be just one of many family secrets.

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