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Nelly Kuppermann * 1920

Isestraße 79 (Eimsbüttel, Harvestehude)

1941 Lodz
weiterdeportiert 1944 + ???

further stumbling stones in Isestraße 79:
Charlotte Hecht, Ephraim Hirsch, Ernestine Hirsch, Ilse Hirsch, Minna Hirsch, Ida Koppel, Henriette Kuppermann, Gerda Kuppermann, Caesar Laski

Henriette Kuppermann, née Goldberger, born 6 Aug. 1890 in Wola, deported 25 Oct. 1941 to Lodz, transferred 28 June 1944
Nelly Kuppermann, born 8 Oct. 1920 in Hamburg, deported 25 Oct. 1941 to Lodz, transferred 28 June 1944
Gerda Kuppermann, born 21 Jan. 1922 in Hamburg, deported 25 Oct. 1941 to Lodz, died there 5 July 1943

Henriette (Jetti) Kuppermann and her husband David joined the Jewish Community in 1922. At that time they had a steady income, which, however, decreased steadily, as their tax payments indicate. In 1935 the company where David Kuppermann worked or which he owned was liquidated. Their daughters Nelly and Gerda were born in 1920 and 1922, probably when the Kuppermanns were living at Schulterblatt 82.

David Kuppermann died on 25 April 1937. Shortly after his death, Jetti and her daughter Nelly, who worked as a housemaid, moved to Isestraße. Gerda, the younger daughter, had been registered at Laufgraben 37 since the summer of 1937. This was the address of the Paulinenstift, a Jewish girls’ orphanage and a home economics school. It is likely that Gerda was one of the 8-12 girls who attended the school as a boarder. Gerda was later registered at the "Jews’ house” at Beneckestraße 6.

Jetti Kuppermann took on boarders in her apartment. Ida Koppel and Charlotte Hecht rented rooms there. Both of them were deported to Lodz with Jetti, Nelly, and Gerda Kuppermann on 25 October 1941.

In the Lodz ghetto, Jetti Kuppermann and both of her daughters were quartered on Hausierergasse. Jetti’s profession was listed as housewife. Nelly worked as a dressmaker, Gerda as a nurse. Both were listed as nurses-in-training on the deportation list. Gerda died on 5 July 1943. Jetti’s and Nelly’s dates of death are considered to be 28 June 1944. This is the date, just a few weeks before the ghetto was liquidated as Soviet troops approached, that a transport left Lodz for "work outside the ghetto.” In truth, the train was destined for Chelmno, where the new arrivals were sent to the gas chambers immediately upon arrival.

Translator: Amy Lee

Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: October 2016
© Christa Fladhammer

Quellen: 1; 5; 8; StaH, 522-1 Jüd. Gemeinden, 992 e 2, Bd 1; AB Hamburg 1928; Die Chronik des Gettos Lodz/Litzmannstadt, Hrsg. Sascha Feuchert u. a., Bd. 4, 1944.
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