Leopold 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 Kestrih in 1942; they were transported from Kestrich to Darmstadt. On 30 September 1942 from Darmstadt to the extermination centre at Treblinka. Earlier it had been thought that they had been deported to Theresienstadt Ghetto.

German National Archives, Memorial Book:
Kapenberg, Leopold
born on the 15th October 1880
in Kestrich/Alsfeld/Hessen
residing in Kestrich
DEPORTATION
from Darmstadt
30th September 1942, Treblinka, vermutl.