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Werner Rothfels

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Kassel, Hesse, Germany
Death: 1942 (15-16)
Distrikt Lublin, Occupied Poland (Murdered)
Immediate Family:

Son of Julius Rothfels and Else Rothfels
Brother of Rosel Rothfels

Managed by: Howard Eichenwald
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About Werner Rothfels

  • Date/place of birth identified in Siegfried Wolf. Juden in Thüringen 1933-1945: Biographische Daten. (2000), vol 2 (unpaginated)
  • Identified as son of Julius and Else Rothfels, see Wolf
  • Stolpersteine were laid for the Rothfels family in 2010. The text accompanying Werner Rothfel's Stolperstein states: ,,Deportiert am 9. Mai 1942. Nur wenig ist von Werner bekannt. Er besuchte in Eisenach bis 1938 das Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium, ehe ihm die NS-Gesetzgebung einen weiteren Schulbesuch verwehrte. Er gehörte im Jahr 1942 gemeinsam mit seiner Schwester zu den jüngsten deportierten jüdischen Eisenachern."; see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Stolpersteine_in_Eisenach

Entry in German National Archives, Memorial Book':
Rothfels, Werner
born on 27th September 1926 in Kassel / - / Hessen-Nassau
resident of Frankfurt a. Main
Deportation:
from Frankfurt am Main-Leipzig
10th May 1942, Belzyce, ghetto
Destiny: officially declared dead

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Werner Rothfels's Timeline

1926
September 27, 1926
Kassel, Hesse, Germany
1942
1942
Age 15
Distrikt Lublin, Occupied Poland