Karola Eppstein (Weingarten)
Vita
(RS) Residence 1936 Paris, France; Paris, 13e, 13, Rue Campo Formio
Arrival 26 Dec 1941 New York, NY, von Casablanca, Morocco
(obit) Carola E. Weingarten, 60, Dies;
Active in Work on Human Rights
Mrs. Carola Eppstein Weingarten, administrative secretary from 1948 to 1963 of the Workers Defense League, a non-partisan legal aid group in human rights, died yesterday in her home, 60 West 76th Street. Her age was 60.
Mrs. Weingarten, who later was secretary of the Philanthropic League for Mutual Aid, was known as a fighter for social justice. She was born in Darmstadt, Germany, a daughter of Eugene Eppstein, a publisher who was high on Hitler's list of most-wanted enemies.
In 1934 she and her husband, Adolph, became refugees from Germany, Mrs. Weingarten, former kindergarten teacher, helped 60 refugee children escape to France. There she organized a self-help group among the refugees to care for the children.
In 1941 the couple migrated to the United States. On the way they were detained in a concentration camp in Casablanca, Morocco, where they organized a self-help medical group among the inmates.
Mrs. Weingarten had done re search for the Committee of Inquiry on Slave Labor and for the ad hoc Committee on Forced Labor of the International Labor Organization in Geneva in 1951.
She also assisted refugee German writers here in translating and editing their works for publication.
Surviving are her husband, an artists' representative, and a sister, Mrs, Rosa Kirschgatter.
Q: NYT 21.06.1965
Remarques
Vater Eugen Eppstein 25.06.1878 Simmern – 04.03.1943 KL Majdanek; (o)
Mutter Selma Eppstein geb. Marx 16.03.1879 Boppard – 18.07.1943 KL Auschwitz; (o)
Geschwister.
Grete Eppstein 1907–1907
Charlotte Eppstein 14.06.1909 Duisburg verh. Stiasny
Rosa Ida Eppstein 1913–
Ehemann Abraham Adolf Adolph Weingarten 1906–1985