Frida Hahn

[Rankin, Robert L]

Alfred,
 
Thanks so much for the information.  One of these days we'll get to the bottom of this mystery.  
 
I also suppose it's possible that the Columbia University Anthropology program might have records with at least a home address for Hahn.  
 
Best,
 
Bob

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From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu on behalf of "Alfred W. Tüting"
Sent: Thu 5/1/2008 1:44 AM
To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject: Frida Hahn



Hello,
this is an interesting topic here and worth going into it.
As already mentioned by others, the first name's spelling (Frida 
instead of Frieda) might suggest Eastern European descent (Cyrillic, 
Yiddish-Hebrew transliteration - or maybe also Hungarian, Romanian 
etc. spelling convention). I'd go for Jewish ancestry.

As a young prosecutor dealing with NS-crimes back in the seventies one 
of our main sources had been "(Bad) Arolsen" i.e. that ITS 
Internationaler Suchdienst (International Tracing Service). Only 
recently, ITS Arolsen IS NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, which means that 
historians or scholars like you are allowed to do researches there.

Here is a link to their website: http://www.its-arolsen.org/english/

and an article about the archive:
http://www.focus.de/panorama/diverses/holocaust-archiv-weltgroesstes-holocaust-archiv-in-bad-arolsen-eroeffnet_aid_298570.html

Best regards

Alfred

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Alfred W. Tüting
ti at fa-kuan.muc.de