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Alfred Kupferbach * 1889

Hauersweg 6 (Hamburg-Nord, Winterhude)

Lager Recebedou Frankreich
ermordet 18.02.1942

Alfred Kupferbach, born 17 July 1889 in Hamburg, died 18 Feb. 1942 in the Récébédou Internment Camp, France

Alfred Kupferbach was the brother of Martha Abel (see Biography: Martha Abel) and Max Kupferbach (see Biography: Max Kupferbach). In the late 1920s he and his brother Max lived with their widowed mother Bertha at Blücherstraße 17 (present-day Kottwitzstraße) in Hamburg-Hoheluft. He ran a grain wholesalers at Hermannstraße 34. Around 1933 the three of them moved to Hauersweg in the Jarrestadt, the neighborhood where their sister Martha and her husband Alphons Abel lived.
In early 1936 Alfred emigrated to Amsterdam. His mother remained in Hamburg and died in March 1936.

When the Wehrmacht invaded Holland in May 1940, Alfred Kupferbach was sent to the Récébédou Camp near Toulouse in the unoccupied South of France. The Vichy Regime interned elderly and sickly Jews from various countries, including the German-occupied areas of Western Europe. In the summer of 1942, several transports left the camp for Auschwitz. The camp was liquidated in September 1942, and the remaining prisoners were transferred to the Nexon Camp near Limoges. Alfred Kupferbach died in Récébédou.

Translator: Amy Lee

Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: October 2016
© Ulrike Sparr

Quellen 1; 8; Personenstandsbuch Standesamt Hamburg-Mitte; http://www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr (Musée de la Mémoire – Camp du Récébédou, eingesehen 12.05.07); http://mms.pegasis.fr/jsp/core/ MmsGlobalSearch.jsp; AB 1935 (Bd. 2); Amtliche Fernsprechbücher Hamburg 1924, 1925, 1930–1933, 1935, 1938; Serge Klarsfeld, Mémorial de la déportation des juifs de France, Paris, 1978.