Simon Franken, son of Levij Franken (1825-1910) and Antje Goedhart, left Haaksbergen, his place of birth, for Amsterdam, where he became a tailor.
R. Geritz-Koster and L. Karseboom, Dorp in de mediene. De geschiedenis van de joodse gemeenschap in Haaksbergen (Zutphen 1999) 223
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