Fraenkel family

The Bernhard Sokolowski-Mirels Collection contains material pertaining to the family history of the Mirels family and personal documents of the Meyerhof family.

Various articles, excerpts, maps, and books related to the Jewish community in Posen/Poznan, collected by Edward Luft.

This collection contains the personal papers of members of the Einzig and Biberfeld (later Field) families. Physician Heinrich Biberfeld immigrated via Italy to New York City with his wife Johanna, two sons, and his mother-in-law in 1940. The collection includes personal correspondence with family members who had not been able to flee Germany, as well as vital records, education records, World War I military records, records of Henry Field’s medical career in Germany and New York, genealogical tables, and photographs.

This collection holds the papers of Emmanuel Fraenkel and his wife, Thea Fraenkel. Emmanuel Fraenkel was a textile factory owner in Neustadt, Germany (now Prudnik, Poland). Due to the politics of Aryanization Fraenkel lost his property and fled with his wife to England, where he was granted citizenship. The collection documents the Fraenkel family effort for restitution by Ernst Fraenkel (son) and his widow.

Records of several Jewish communities assembled by Jacob Jacobson.

Wedding songs and other celebratory writings as well as school and business materials pertaining to the extended family of Joseph Fraenkel, Berlin

This collection contains vital and personal papers (citizenship, birth, death, marriage, immunization, genealogical records) for members of the Marcussohn, Kraft, Fraenkel, Loewenstein, Langerdorf and Benda families from the late 19th to the 20th centuries. Prominently represented in the collection are documents from the professional and personal activities of Berlin attorney Bernhard Kraft, who practiced in the late 19th and early 20th century. He also wrote travel articles for the newspaper Für Reise und Wanderung, several editions of which are in the collection (all from 1913). There is a 264 page binder of typewritten letter transcripts written from WWI soldier Fritz J. Langendorff to his wife Margot Kraft (daughter of Bernhard and Alice Kraft). Oversized documents in this collection include printed artwork of baby and family, synagogue seating agreement (Löbau, 1869), and honorary book from Vorstand des Vereins Ehemaliger Lehrlingsheimer for donor and patron Joseph Fraenkel on occasion of his 75th birthday (1903).

The Marta Fraenkel Collection holds papers and correspondence of Marta Fraenkel and her family members. Prominent topics include postwar Germany and Korea and the lives of family members who resided there. Some focus on the family genealogy is also existent. The collection comprises correspondence, personal and official papers, biographical articles, family trees, postcards and some notes.