Ignatz Pfeffer
Ignatz Pfeffer was the father of Fritz Pfeffer.
Person
Ignatz Pfeffer, father of Fritz Pfeffer,[1] was a textile and clothing merchant. In 1883 he married Jeanette Hirsch. The marriage resulted in one daughter and five sons: Minna (1884), Julius (1885), Emil (1887), Fritz (1889), Ernst (1892) and Hans (1894).[2] Jeanette died on 27 December 1925.[3]
On 5 August 1927, the widow Anna Kugelmann (1882-1944) moved in with him. In the summer of 1933, both of them went to Wiesbaden and returned to Giessen in December. Until the summer of 1942 they lived on Marktplatz, but then they were forced to move. On 9 September 1942, they married. One week later they were taken to Darmstadt with other Jews. Deportation to Theresienstadt followed on 27 September 1942, where Ignatz died of exhaustion and malnutrition..[3]
When Fritz Pfeffer went into hiding in the Secret Annex, his father had already died.
Source personal data.[3] Addresses: Marktplatz 6, Giessen; Walltorstrasse 42 (1942).
Footnotes
- ^ Anne refers to him as his father in Germany. Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 13 November 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
- ^ Bernd Lindenthal, Fritz Pfeffer war der Zimmergenosse von Anne Frank, Zur Erinnerung an den Zahnarzt aus Gießen, in: Mitteilungen des Oberhessischen Geschichtsvereins Gießen, NF 85, 2000, p. 99-101.
- a, b, c Christel Buseck, Marktplatz 6 (ehem. Marktpltaz 6) – Ignatz und Anna Pfeffer.
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Ignatz Pfeffer (rechts) met zijn oudste zoon Julius Pfeffer (links), Gießen, niet gedateerd
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