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  • Abraham Frank (1872 - aft.1941)
    Eintrag im »Gedenkbuch« des Bundesarchivs:Frank, Abraham geboren am 28. Dezember 1872 in Velen/Borken/Westfalenwohnhaft in VelenDeportation ab Münster - Osnabrück - Bielefeld 13. Dezember 1941, Riga, G...
  • Aileen Mehle (1918 - 2016)
    Aileen Mehle (née Elder, June 10, 1918 – November 11, 2016), known by the pen name Suzy or Suzy Knickerbocker, was an American society columnist, active in journalism for over fifty years. Her column...
  • Albert Frank (1804 - 1871)
  • Alfred Frank (1882 - aft.1941)
    civ reg Eintrag im »Gedenkbuch« des Bundesarchivs: Frank, Alfred geboren am 22. August 1882 in Rheydt / Gladbach / Rheinprovinz wohnhaft in Köln Deportation: ab Köln 07. Dezember 1941, Riga, Gh...

About the Frank surname

Origin

German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Slovenian, Czech, Hungarian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): ethnic or regional name for someone from Franconia (German Franken), a region of southwestern Germany so called from its early settlement by the Franks, a Germanic people who inhabited the lands around the river Rhine in Roman times. In the 6th–9th centuries, under leaders such as Clovis I (c. 466–511) and Charlemagne (742–814), the Franks established a substantial empire in western Europe, from which the country of France takes its name. The term Frank in eastern Mediterranean countries was used, in various vernacular forms, to denote the Crusaders and their descendants, and the American surname may also be an Americanized form of such a form.

English, Dutch, German, etc.: from the personal name Frank, in origin an ethnic name for a Frank. This also came be used as an adjective meaning ‘free’, ‘open-hearted’, ‘generous’, deriving from the fact that in Frankish Gaul only people of Frankish race enjoyed the status of fully free men. It was also used as a Jewish personal name.

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Balázs Déri thinks :

A-Fer-Anak was leader of the tribe Ze-Be-Laya-Na - that is Belize who are later called mayas - in the time of the exodus.

He was the son of A'al-a- Weste-Fa-na that could mean that franks descend from west'falians.

Jews and christians call them Parnak,Zebulon and Elitsafan.