TROPLOWITZ Cousins

From Don’s review of the 1889-1910 Breslau Standesamt records indexed by JRI-Poland, he found the names of the parents of Franz KOHN. They were Samuel KOHN and Martha TROPLOWITZ.  Franz was in the tree because his wife Margarethe SCHOTTLAENDER was part of the SCHOTTLAENDER family mentioned in the Memoir by Herbert PRIEBATSCH that Don had reviewed and mined for family information back in 2009.

Martha TROPLOWITZ was in the tree as a daughter of Bernhard TROPLOWITZ and Rosalie TURBIN, niece of David IMMERWAHR.  Martha’s husband was only known as XY KOHN, based on the Todesanzeige for Bernhard TROPLOWITZ which was signed by Bernhard’s daughter Martha KOHN.

With this link, Franz KOHN became (known to be) our third cousin once removed. He and Margarethe had two children Ludwig Wilhelm KOHN and Stephanie Ellen KOHN. Steffie, as she was apparently known, was the only member of this family who managed to emigrate. She settled in London where she died in 1990.

Franz, Margarethe and Ludwig were all still living in Breslau (or in detention in Grüssau) in 1942. On August 30, 1942, they were deported to Theresienstadt. Franz died there in February 1944. Margarethe was deported to Auschwitz in May 1944; Ludwig had already been deported to Auschwitz in January 1943.

From available information, Steffie never married and did not have any children.  This new line of cousins from a little known part of the IMMERWAHR family seems to have ended with Steffie.