Paul Eppstein
1902–1944
Paul Maximilian Eppstein was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein in 1902. He studied law, political science, sociology and economics in Heidelberg, taught at the Mannheim commercial college and from 1928 directed the Mannheim adult education centre, which he turned into a leading institution of its kind. Removed from his posts in 1933, he moved into the leadership of the national Jewish representative body in Berlin, where, as a senior official of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland, he was forced to negotiate with the Gestapo and the RSHA, above all over emigration. On 26 January 1943 he and his wife Hedwig were deported from Berlin to Theresienstadt on transport I/86, where he was made Judenältester, head of the ghetto's Jewish self-administration. In September 1944 he was arrested on a pretext and shot by the SS in the Small Fortress; the Bundesarchiv Memorial Book and the Terezín Initiative database give 28 September 1944, while some accounts give 27 September. His wife Hedwig was deported to Auschwitz in October 1944 and murdered.
Murdered in Theresienstadt (Small Fortress) on 28 September 1944.
Sources
- Bundesarchiv, Gedenkbuch – entry Eppstein, Paul Maximilian Birth 4 Mar 1902 Ludwigshafen; residences Mannheim and Berlin-Wilmersdorf; deported from Berlin 26 Jan 1943 to Theresienstadt; died 28 Sep 1944 in Theresienstadt
- holocaust.cz – victim record Dr. Paul Eppstein Transport I/86 (no. 10669), 26 Jan 1943 Berlin → Terezín; murdered 28 Sep 1944 in Terezín
- holocaust.cz – Transport I/86 (Berlin → Terezín) Transport I/86 dated 26 Jan 1943, 100 deportees
- Stolpersteine in Berlin – Paul Maximilian Eppstein (biography by Marianne Gaehtgens) Studies, Mannheim adult education centre from 1928, Reichsvereinigung role and negotiations, deportation 26 Jan 1943, Judenältester, arrest on a pretext and shooting in the Small Fortress, wife deported to Auschwitz Oct 1944; stone at Ludwigkirchstr. 10
- Wikipedia (en) – Paul Eppstein Deported January 1943 with his wife Hedwig; Elder of Theresienstadt; shot in the Small Fortress on '27 or 28 September 1944'
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