At the turn of the 20th century, the Kupfers were one of the largest producers of sheet and mirror glass in Bavaria and Bohemia.
A Retirement Home in Bohemia
On Tuesday, August 18, 1942, Train Da 503 pulled away from Platform 40 of Frankfurt’s Grossmarkthalle. Its destination was a small town north of Prague, near an old fortress called Theresienstadt. The train was packed with more than a thousand elderly Jews. Among them were my grandfather Otto Kupfer and his sister Mina.
