Walter Loepert (1886-1942)

Walter Loepert (1886-1942)

Biography
"Walter Loepert was born on April 12, 1886 in Schlawe in Pomerania. By profession he was a merchant or according to the Berlin address book of 1941 commercial agents. He lived in the rear building on the second floor. His wife was born as Käthe Salomon on February 22, 1900 in Berlin. The couple had two daughters, the older one was called Eva and was born on 17 July 1925 in Berlin, the younger one was called Annemarie and was born on April 25, 1929, also in Berlin. The Loepert family was deported together on March 28, 1943 [to] the ghetto Piaski. The ghetto Piaski was a smaller ghetto in the district of Lublin in Poland. It existed between April 1941 and 1943. The approximately 9,000 internees were murdered in Belzec or Sobibor. Walter Loepert's sister Margaret Biel managed to emigrate. She filed a claim for compensation in the 1950s from the USA." (Source: Jewish Museum Berlin)