Ingeborg Wolf

Ingeborg Wolf was born in Trier on September 13, 1916. She was the daughter of Josef David Wolf and Lisa Wolf, née Feldmann.
Her sister Elly Regina had died shortly before Ingeborg's birth at the age of 20 months. But Ingeborg did not remain an only child. In 1924, her brother Leo was born.

As owners of two shoe stores in the best shopping streets of Trier, the Wolfs belonged to the city's wealthy middle class, and it can be assumed that Ingeborg experienced a sheltered childhood. She attended the Jewish elementary school in Trier and then the Auguste Victoria Girls' Lyceum.
At the age of 16, while still in high school, Ingeborg began attending evening classes in commercial studies and graduated with a degree for the commercial profession. A year later, she had to leave the Auguste Viktoria Lyzeum due to the Law against Overcrowding in German Schools and Universities of April 25, 1933.

In the same year, her parents separated. Her father bought another shoe store called "Chasalla" in Cologne and moved to Cologne. Three years later, her parents sold the company "Schuhhaus Wolf" with the two shoe stores in Trier and Ingeborg's mother also moved to Cologne with her children. There Ingeborg, who was 20 years old by then, worked as a bookkeeper in her father's shoe store. From 1937 to 1939, she worked as a secretary and bookkeeper at the Cologne metal wholesaler Gebrüder van Cleef.
At the time, Ingeborg was engaged to Ernst Markus, who lived in Amsterdam. When she returned from a trip to Holland in July 1938, she was arrested by the Gestapo at the border in Nijmegen-Kraneburg and her passport was confiscated. She was lucky, she was released and received her passport back in Cologne, but with a greatly reduced period of validity.
After the shoe store "Chasalla" in Cologne was completely destroyed in the Reich Pogrom Night and Ingeborg's father had to flee, Ingeborg and her mother moved to her aunt Rosa Glaser, her uncle Hugo Glaser and cousins Hans Wolfgang and Ludwig at Elberfelder Straße 29 in Berlin-Tiergarten in August 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. There they wanted to wait for an opportunity to emigrate to Amsterdam.
Ingeborg was unable to find a position in her profession in Berlin and worked for a time as a domestic servant for the Ernst and Helene Westphal family in Berlin-Dahlem, who had converted to the Protestant faith and were formerly Jewish.
Presumably in connection with the deportation of the Glaser family on November 17, 1941, Ingeborg and her mother Lina had to move to Elßholzstraße 17 in Berlin-Schöneberg. From there they were picked up and deported to Riga, Latvia, on November 27, 1941, along with 1,051 other Jews from the Grunewald train station. Immediately after their arrival on November 30, 1941, all the people of this transport, including Ingeborg, 25 years old, and Lina, 55 years old, were murdered with rifle shots in the forest of Rumbula.