Irma Siegel

Irma Hanauer, a cattle rancher's daughter, left Wiesenfeld for Frankfurt in 1927. Irma took a job as a household helper in house of Selma Siegel, where she fell in love with their son Julius whom she married. Julius and Irma Siegel, were loving parents, who cared for Ruth dearly. Ruth grew up in the wake of the German Depression, and out of the economic ruin grew Nazism and Hitler. Hitler's rise to power in the 1930's didn't affect the young Karola first. Toward the end of 1938 the safety and comfort of Ruth's world was violently shattered by Kristallnacht, and seven days later (November 16), by the German SS soldiers who came to take her father.

Eintrag im »Gedenkbuch« des Bundesarchivs:

• Siegel, Irma
• geborene Hanauer geboren am 27. Oktober 1903 in Wiesenfeld / Karlstadt / Bayern wohnhaft in Frankfurt a. Main
• Deportation: ab Frankfurt a. Main 20. Oktober 1941, Litzmannstadt (Lodz), Ghetto