Irma Kappenberg

• Date/place of birth in record of birth; see Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Bestand: 924; Laufende Nummer: 2201 (Ancestry.com)
• Identified as daughter of David and Karoline (née Steg) Mayer in birth record cited above
• Identified as wife of Leopold Kappenberg, whom she married on 03 October 1909 in Wohnbach, in marriage record; see Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Bestand: 924; Laufende Nummer: 2206 (Ancestry.com)
• Identified as mother of Erna Esther Wertheim (née Klappenberg) in U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007' (Ancestry.com)
• Irma and Leopold Kapenberg were living in Kestrich and were transported from there to Darmstadt. On 30 September 1942 they were deported from Darmstadt to the extermination centre at Treblinka. Earlier it had been thought that they had been deported to Theresienstadt Ghetto.

Entry in German National Archives, Memorial Book:
Kapenberg, Irma
name at birth Mayer
born on the 15th April 1884
in Wohnbach/Friedberg/Hessen
residing in Kestrich
DEPORTATION
from Darmstadt
30th September 1942, Treblinka, vermutl.