1764 – 23rd May 1845 – house 63 Široké Třebčice
Rachel’s oldest son, he was born in Zelec and then moved to Široké Třebčice either before or at the time of his marriage in Amalia Eva Hirsh on the 27th November 1789. Amalia was usually known by the nickname Minka, she was born in a very small village on the outskirts of the large town of Louny. Juda and Amalia ran a small Inn for travelling trades people and became very well integrated into the Jewish community of Široké Třebčice. Between 1790 and 1805 they had five children. As their oldest son Abraham grew up, he became very involved in the running of the local synagogue.
By the middle of the century there were 57 different families, probably about 400 people in total living in Široké Třebčice. This now made up over 60% of the population of the whole village. The Frankl family were now one of the leading families in the village.
The small building that had been used as a synagogue was becoming too small and it was not in a good state, so a plan was put together to raise funds and construct a new building.[1] Abraham played a leading role in the planning and development of the new synagogue which was finally completed in 1848. Abraham was also very involved in the Chevra Kadisha, the burial society. The cemetery used by the Jewish community was on the south side of a small hill about one kilometre east of the village, just near the small stream that supplied the village pond. It had been founded in the middle of the 15th Century.
[1] Information about the Jewish Community in Široké Třebčice comes from “The Jewish Sights of Bohemia and Moravia” writtem by Jiří Fiedler.
