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Eintrag im »Gedenkbuch« des Bundesarchivs:
Kahn, Leopold Albert
geboren am 23. Dezember 1883 in Rückershausen / Untertaunuskreis / Hessen-Nassau wohnhaft in Rückershausen, Köln und Wiesbaden
Inhaftierung: 1933 - 20. März 1934, Köln, Gefängnis
Deportation: ab Frankfurt a. Main 01. September 1942, Theresienstadt, Ghetto 23. Januar 1943, Auschwitz, Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager
Todesort: Auschwitz, Vernichtungslager Schicksal: für tot erklärt
cf.: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Stolpersteine_in_Wiesbaden-...
&: http://www.am-spiegelgasse.de/wp-content/downloads/erinnerungsblaet... (with documents)
There is a Stolperstein for Leopold Kahn in Wiesbaden,Kapellenstrasse38/ nbr0555. Family from Rückershausen: Leopold Albert Kahn was on 23 December 1883 in Rückershausen born in the Untertaunus. As a traveling salesman For a bedspring company from Mannheim, he earned well by 1933, for about 12,000 RM per annum. The company provided him with a chauffeur-driven car and continued to employ him on a commission basis after a political prison sentence. However, due to the National Socialist boycott measures he was unable to earn anything from 1936/37 and the family had to live off their savings. The wife Hedwig geb. Mayer was born on February 16, 1893 in Kettenbach. The marriage took place there in December 1919. In 1920, the only son, Egon, was born. Hedwig Kahn operated in Rückershausen in his own house a shoe store, "which was locally significant," as a witness later recalled. As early as 1933, during the night of Good Friday, Leopold Kahn was severely abused by SA members and so injured that he had to flee from Rückershausen in a private ambulance. He was brought to Cologne, where he was hidden from relatives of his wife for two months. He received threats, it was said that they would kill him in Rückershausen. Therefore, the family left their home in May 1933 and fled to Wiesbaden in the Kapellenstraße 38. A judicial investigation of the robbery never took place. At the end of 1933, Leopold Kahn was denounced by a customer and subsequently sentenced to six months in prison, which he had to serve in Cologne for Klingelpütz. He had said that he had been mistreated by Nazis and should have called Hitler a warmonger. On March 20, 1934, he was released due to a pardon request from his defender prematurely. In 1939, Egon Kahn emigrated to England, the parents operated their emigration to the US, without success. Hedwig Kahn had to do forced labor at the company W. Söhngen & Co in Wiesbaden. Leopold and Hedwig Kahn were deported to Theresienstadt on 1 September 1942 and murdered on 23 January 1943 in Auschwitz.
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Leopold Albert Kahn's Timeline
| 1883 |
December 23, 1883
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Rückershausen, Neukirchen, Kassel, Hessen, Germany
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| 1920 |
August 3, 1920
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Rückershausen, Neukirchen, Kassel, Hessen, Germany
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January 1943
Age 59
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Oswiecim, Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
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Oswiecim, Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
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