Fourth cousin, nothing. My grandfather's first cousin David Baumann died at the Sobibor Extermination Camp run by the Nazis in Poland. In 1943. 52 years old.
I know I will find more, but he's the closest I've got so far.
Morris Baumann (1857-1937) was the youngest of a large family from Schmieheim in Baden. One of his older brothers was Leopold Baumann, 10 years older (1847-1925). He had seven children, three daughters and four sons. I have limited information
These would be Morris' nieces and nephews and his children (including Irwin, Gertrude, Robert)'s first cousins.
David Baumann was one of his sons (1892-1945). In the Feibelman family history I see this text 8 May 1945 "Declared dead by Frankfurt/Main Authorities " I'm realizing that means dead in Holocaust. He's one year younger than Poppy.
I looked up in "The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names on Yad Vashem.
There are two entries, very likely duplicates
David Baumann was born in Schieheim in 1892. During the war he was in The Netherlands. David was murdered/perished in 1943 in Sobibor, Poland. This information is based on a List of murdered Jews from the Netherlands found in In Memoriam - Nederlandse oorlogsslachtoffers, Nederlandse Oorlogsgravenstichting (Dutch War Victims Authority), `s-Gravenhage (courtesy of the Association of Yad Vashem Friends in Netherlands, Amsterdam).
I do not know if he had a family. I don't know if he really was in the Netherlands, I think the information came from the Netherlands.
Somehow this information just hit me in the gut, made me physically sick. I knew that Sobibor was a particularly nasty extermination camp. Gas chamber, crematoria, the whole thing. Somehow the general public knows about Auschwitz, maybe Dachau or Treblinka. But there were so many more.
I'm still debating on what picture I should use. Either they were too upsetting or too vague or not sufficiently related. I don't know about David Baumann about what should be put up about him. But this picture of SS men that served at Sobibor, this picture chilled me and this post deserves a chilling (but not horrifying) picture. But these men, they were probably the murderers.
I will name them from the caption:
Alexander Kaiser, Franz Hoedl, & Hubert Gomerski SS men that served at Sobibor
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