Fritz Frank Collection
Scope and Contents
The collection contains various documents pertaining to Fritz Frank, most of them manuscripts written by him, and comprises 16 folders.
Dates
- undated, 1923-1977
Creator
- Frank, Fritz, 1886-1978 (Person)
- Frank-Itin, Raissa (Person)
- Lilienstein, Lilly (Person)
Language of Materials
The collection is in German.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection has been digitized. Folder 2 and folder 16 have not been digitized due to copyrights.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is open to researchers.
Biographical / Historical
Fritz Frank was born in 1886 in Horb am Neckar to Hugo Frank and Sophie née Weil, owners of a family textile factory. He studied medicine in Heidelberg and Kiel universities and served as a physician in the First World War. Frank married Raissa Itin, moved to Heppenheim, and had two children – Hugo and Sophie (later Yael). In the 1930s the family migrated to Palestine and settled in Netanya. Fritz Frank passed away in 1978.
Extent
16 Folders
Abstract
The collection contains various documents pertaining to Fritz Frank, most of them manuscripts written by him, and comprises 16 folders.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in 1 series.
- Archival materials
- Autobiographies (literary works)
- Frank, Fritz, 1886-1978
- Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse (Germany)
- Horb am Neckar (Germany)
- Jewish families
- Jewish physicians
- Jewish textile fabrics
- Jews
- Jews -- Germany -- Biography
- Jews, German
- Lahr (Ortenaukreis, Germany)
- Manuscripts (documents)
- Netanyah (Israel)
- Palestine
- Photographs
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Germany
- Author
- Processed by Meirav Reuveny
- Date
- © 2021
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
