Frida Hahn
Tom Leonard
tmleonard at cox.net
Mon Apr 28 22:15:32 UTC 2008
Thought I'd add a bit regarding Freida Hahn.
My Ponca mother, Josetta Rush was friends with Freida. She had many
stories about her. To my best understanding, as mom told it, Freida was
German. She actually told a story about how they (Poncas) were all
amazed that Freida could "/i'e with those German ukhi'te at Miller's 101
Ranch/" (German WWI POWs that never went back).
Some time in the late 30s Freida was called back to Germany and she
went. Mom said that all the Ponca boys that went to Europe in WWII tried
to find her, but to no avail. Mom and her sisters tried to locate her
through the Red Cross, but they never found her. The fear has always
been that she had been killed in the holocaust.
TML
Rankin, Robert L wrote:
> I did a little more checking on Frida Hahn, the student of Franz Boas who wrote the Ponca grammar found in the Gordon Marsh Collection of the APS. There was a Frida Hahn listed in the 1920 US Census from Lincoln, Nebraska, daughter of one William Hahn who had emigrated from Russia. At the time our Frida was exchanging correspondence with Franz Boas she would have been 23-27 years old -- just about right for a graduate student. And she might have been naturally attracted to study Ponca since she was from Nebraska. According to the Census figures, below, she apparently had a brother and possibly three sisters.
>
> Those of you living in the Lincoln area might want to make some phone calls to the Hahns in the Lincoln phone directory and see if any of the names below rings a bell. There may be some children or grandchildren still around, and we could clear up the question "What ever happened to Frida Hahn?" once and for all. They might appreciate the information we have about her too.
>
> Her father and mother were both born in Russia
>
> NAME STATUS AGE FATHER BIRTHPLACE
> Hahn, Emma Married 43 F William (H9) Russia
> Hahn, Emma Single 11 F William (H9) Nebraska
> Hahn, Frida Single 13 F William (H9) Nebraska
> Hahn, George Single 22 M William (H9) Nebraska
> Hahn, Hazel Single 9m F William (H9) Nebraska
>
> I also checked the listings of names of persons who died in the holocaust. There were at least three Frida Hahns from various places in Silesia and Hungary, but they were all born in the 1880s. Let us hope she was not one of them.
>
> Bob
>
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