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    Title

  • Spindle

  • Physical Description

    1 spindle : wood, thread, metal ; 1 3/4" x 16 5/8" x 1 1/4" (5 x 43 x 4 cm.)

  • Date

    1930's

  • Summary

    A wooden spindle, part of a loom from the S.Frankel company. There is a spool of beige thread in the spindle. Along one side in ink "Ein teil vom Webstuhl S.Fränkel SA: 1930?"

  • Subject

    Textile industry; Spindles (Textile machinery)

  • Medium

    Tools and equipment

  • Part Of

    John Peters (Pinkus) family papers, AR 25520

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Biographical/Historical Information

The S. Fränkel factory was founded by Samuel Fränkel in Neustadt in Oberschlesien (Prudnik, Poland) in 1845. It grew into one of the world’s largest producers of fine linens. Management of the firm fell to Samuel Fränkel’s son-in-law Joseph Pinkus, and the company remained owned and operated by the Fränkel and Pinkus families until the Aryanization policies of the Nazi government forced them out.

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Spindle, Leo Baeck Institute, 2013.199.