Frida Hahn

rwd0002 at unt.edu rwd0002 at unt.edu
Tue Apr 29 15:09:37 UTC 2008


Quoting "Rankin, Robert L" <rankin at ku.edu>:

> Willem,
>
> I'm afraid I can't remember WHY I have always assumed she was Jewish. 
>  I either heard or read it somewhere I considered authoritative, I 
> think.  The assumption is backed up by the people in Oklahoma among 
> whom she worked however.
>
> Bob
>
Thanks Bob.  Since the Ponca people say that she was Jewish from 
Germany, that was the correct assumption.  Probably not the same person 
as the Nebraskan Frida Hahn from Russia who might have been Volga 
Germans and therefore not Jewish?  Just guessing...



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