KAUFMANN, Klara (nee Oppenheimer)

Other Family

Personal Details

Religion
Jewish
Address
Gemmingen

Family

Children

Correspondence (1 documents)

Handwritten letter to cousin — family fate (page 1 of 3)
Handwritten letter to cousin — family fate (page 1 of 3)
30.10.1946
Transcribed
1) Dear Cousin! Gemmingen, October 30, 1946 I found your address earlier at the town hall in Gemmingen. As I begin this letter -- your dear mother is after all in America. It is a miracle from God to me that you survived the terrible times. But very few of us survived this dreadful catastrophe. My dear father died in KZ Buchenwald concentration camp. My Uncle Julius and Aunt Elsa, Aunt Frieda and their children were deported and never returned. Aunt Klara was together with your dear father at Burkenbrausch [?] and I went to look for many things. Only my sister Margrit [Margit] and I survived the concentration camp period. My sister worked as a gardener and in a wood factory. She emigrated to Palestine half a year ago and is near a settlement that was established in 1939. Now I will report about myself: At the beginning of 1939, I was at the Jewish emigration training estate in Esslingen, then at the Jewish emigration training farm at [continues on page 2]

Notes

Moses's sister
Contact person for Moses in Ludwigsburg prison
Josef's 1946 letter: 'Aunt Klara was together with your dear father' — confirms link to Kaufmann family and recipient's father

Sources

Oppenheimer/Shacham Family Archive Stolpersteine Stuttgart USHMM Kaufmann Family Correspondence