Isay Frank

In 1899 the two oldest sons of Israel Frank and Amalie Isay, Isay Frank and Simon Frank, ran together a trading business with typical regional products in Wittlich. But they both left Wittllich and moved to Trier. Simon Frank later died in Wittlich and was buried in the Jewish cemetery of Wittlich.

Israel Frank was one of the first business-people in Wittlich who used advertisements in the local newspaper, to advertise his goods. He only advertised in spring and in autumn. Between 1860 and 1870 those ads were quite small, but big enough to announce that he bought the latest products from the Leipzig Fair and could sell them now without intermediary trade for the cheapest prices. This was his simple but successful receipt.

[Following a description about his standing in the Wittlich community and how the citizens appreciated him, and a description of his and his wife’s tomb stone on the Wittlich Jewish Cemetery]

(Source: Maria Wein-Mehs: Juden in Wittlich (1808-1942), Wittlich 1996, p. 556.)