Ilse Salomon collection

The papers consist of documents relating to Adolf Kaufmann's and Kurt Wolfgang Ruppel's experiences during and after the Holocaust, including a form from the Red Cross International Tracing Service, a document of exclusion from the Wehrmacht, and an identification certificate from the British Home Office. Adolf Kaufmann (1873-1942) was born in Ladenburg, Germany to Leopold and Fanny Kaufmann. He was deported from the Preungesheim prison in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in to the Buchenwald concentration camp in June 1942 where he perished. Kurt Wolfgang Ruppel was born on 25 January 1917 in Gotha, Germany to Richard Ruppel and Margarete Simson. Prior to World War II he was a medical student. He immigrated to England around 1939. In 1946 he immigrated to the United States.