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Julius Rothfels

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Ronshausen, Kassel, Hesse, Germany
Death: 1942 (56-57)
Distrikt Lublin, Occupied Poland (Shoah)
Immediate Family:

Son of Meier Rothfels and Malchen Rothfels
Husband of Else Rothfels
Father of Werner Rothfels and Rosel Rothfels
Brother of Sohn Rothfels; Siegfried Rothfels; Bertha Rothfels; Sally Rothfels; Ida Gelfand and 5 others

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About Julius Rothfels

  • Date/place of birth identified in Siegfried Wolf. Juden in Thüringen 1933-1945: Biographische Daten. (2000), vol 2 (unpaginated)
  • Identified as brother of Bertha Rothfels, and Ida Gelfand, née Rothfels, see Wolf
  • Identified as husband of Else Fackenheim, see Wolf
  • Identified as father of Werner and Rosel Rothfels, see Wolf
  • Julius Rothfels was arrested in the Reichspogromnacht of 9/10 November 1938 and imprisoned in Buchenwald; see "Change of strength reports 05.11.1938 - 11.11.1938," Incarceration Documents/Buchenwald, Arolsen Archives, https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/search/person/5278091?s...
  • Stolpersteine were laid for the Rothfels family in 2010. The text accompanying Julius Rothfels states: ,,Deportiert am 9. Mai 1942. Die Familie Rothfels hat ihre Wurzeln in Ronshausen, wo sie seit dem frühen 19. Jahrhundert nachgewiesen ist. Julius war Kaufmann. Um 1930 zogen die Rothfels nach Eisenach, wo Julius im gleichen Jahr einen Handel mit Manufaktur- und Modewaren eröffnete. Wenig später erwarb Julius das Haus Jakobsplan 7, in dem die Familie bis zu ihrer Deportation lebte."; see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Stolpersteine_in_Eisenach Entry in German National Archives, Memorial Book':

Rothfels, Julius
born on 03rd February 1885 in Ronshausen / Rotenburg i. Hessen-Nassau / Hessen-Nassau
resident of Eisenach
Deportation:
from Weimar-Leipzig
10th May 1942, Belzyce, ghetto

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Julius Rothfels's Timeline

1885
February 3, 1885
Ronshausen, Kassel, Hesse, Germany
1926
September 27, 1926
Kassel, Hesse, Germany
1929
May 28, 1929
Bebra, Hesse, Germany
1942
1942
Age 56
Distrikt Lublin, Occupied Poland