Refugee to Tennessee: A Conversation with a Holocaust Survivor

This event will take place at the Tennessee State Museum on Wednesday, April 14th at 12 - 1 p.m.

In partnership with the Tennessee Holocaust Commission, the Museum welcomes holocaust survivor, Frances Hahn, in conversation with Tennessee State Museum curator, Brigette Jones. Frances Cutler Hahn was born Fanny Lindenberg Kahane on March 16, 1938 in Paris, France. Her parents, Schlomo Zalman Kahane and Cyla Lindenberg, came to Paris in 1936 from Poland. Hahn will share her own experiences as a refugee who immigrated to Tennessee.

Frances Cutler Hahn was born Fanny Lindenberg Kahane on March 16, 1938 in Paris, France. Her parents, Schlomo Zalman Kahane and Cyla Lindenberg, came to Paris in 1936 from Poland. When Fanny was three, her parents placed her in a children’s’ home prior to their own arrests. Cyla Kahane was deported on Convoy 11 from Drancy to Auschwitz in 1942, where she was murdered. After her father was warned that Fanny would soon be deported, he moved her to live with a Catholic family on a farm, where she remained until the end of the war. At the end of the war, Schlomo Kahane died in a hospital of tuberculosis. Fanny moved to several orphanages before immigrating to the United States with the assistance of HIAS, where she was adopted.