WHAT WE KNOW
Birth Name: Frankenberg
First Name: Nathan
Date/Place of Birth: 05 Sep 1863 Marisfeld
Date/Place of Deportation: 20 September/Theresienstadt Ghetto
Date/Place of Death: 06 December 1942/Theresienstadt Ghetto
Age at Death: 79 yearsin November 1894
Nathan Frankenberg, b. 1863, was the youngest child and second son of Jacob Moses and Louis (née Mai) Frankenberg. Jacob and Louise moved to Coburg in 1890. Nathan was 37 years then and it is not yet known where he spent the years between 1876-early 1890.
in November 1894 Nathan married Minna Gassenheimer of Themar, the daughter of Samuel & Charlotte (née Stein) Gassenheimer. Minna and Nathan first lived in Coburg, where their first son, Siegfried, was born in 1895; they then moved to Halle an der Salle, where their second son, Walter, was born. Other Gassenheimers lived in Halle: Minna’s sisters, Emma Marcus and her family, and Elise Ney, and brother Georg and his wife Selma (née Schwab). Nathan joined the Halle branch of Gassenheimer agricultural machinery business which was managed by Georg Gassenheimer.
Walter Gassenheimer died as a young boy of eleven years. Siegfried continued to live in Halle/Saale, marrying Hertha Meyer. They lived with Nathan and Minna in an apartment in Prinzenstraße 12.
In 1936, Siegfried left Halle/Saale and moved to Czechoslovakia where he lived in several cities including Podebrady and Dlazdena. In 1938, Hertha Frankenberg also went to Czechoslovakia, but she stayed in Prague.
Nathan and Minna remained in Halle/Salle. They moved into an apartment in Kurfürstenstraße 74 (now Feuerbachstraße). On 30 June 1942 they were forced to move in to themussten sie in das „Altersheim“ auf der Boelckestraße 24 (heute Dessauer Straße) umziehen.
All four Frankenbergs were trapped in the Reich when the deportations began. Siegfried and Hertha were taken from Prague to Theresienstadt Ghetto on 09 June 1942; three and a half months later, on 20 September 1942, Nathan and Minna were deported from Halle/Saale to Theresienstadt. Nathan ‘died’ in the Ghetto on 06 December 1942
Siegfried and Hertha were transported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz on 28 September 1944. Minna Frankenberg, née Gassenheimer, was not transported to Auschwitz but remained in the Theresienstadt Ghetto. She was the sole survivor of the family. She returned to Halle/Saale after the liberation of Theresienstadt and died there in 1961.
- Nathan FRANKENBERG, b. 05 Sep 1863 Marisfeld, murdered 6 Dec 1942 Ghetto Theresienstadt
- ∞ Minna GASSENHEIMER, b. 01 Dec 1872 Themar, 19 Sept 1942 deported to Ghetto Theresienstadt/survived, d. 1961 Halle a/d Saale
- 2. Siegfried FRANKENBERG, 04 Nov 1895 Coburg, 08 Jul 1936 to Bohemia, 09 Jun 1942 deported from Kolin to Theresienstadt Ghetto/28 Sept 1944 Auschwitz Extermination Centre/murdered
- ∞ (Dr. jur) Herta MEYER, b.04 Jun 1909 Berlin, 1938 to Prague, deported 22 Dec 1941 from Prague to Theresienstadt Ghetto/19 Oct 1944 transported to Auschwitz Extermination Centre/murdered
- 2. Walter FRANKENBERG, b. 20 Oct 1897 [Coburg], d. 24 Jun 1908 Halle/Saale