Albert Edward Spiegel

From the 1964 autobiography of Gustav Kahn:

"My sister, Paula Kahn Spiegel, was born in Schierstein, Germany in the year 1888...Paula attended the public schools in Schierstein, like the rest of her brothers and sisters, until she was 14 years of age, i.e. until 1902, and after that, she went to Wiesbaden...During World War I, however, Paula quit her job and stayed at home with my mother in Schierstein. In 1923, she was married to Albert Spiegel, of Bad Nauheim, Germany. Albert Spiegel was the owner of a 5 and 10 cent store in that town for several years. He stayed in business until some time after the advent of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi followers [came] to power in Nazi Germany; in 1937, or 1938, he was forced to liquidate his business. In 1938, Albert Spiegel tried to come over to the United States, but he was unsuccessful in these attempts, partly because there were delays in getting the proper papers prepared and signed; partly, also because of the very large number of German Jews and other persons who were seeking admittance to the United States at that time.... When these papers finally had been prepared and sent off, in 1941, they unfortunately arrived in Germany too late, in the latter part of the year 1941, and by that time Albert and Paula Kahn Spiegel and their two children -- one of them was named Irene Spiegel, and the name of the other I have forgotten -- had, unfortunately, and sad to relate, been taken off to a concentration camp, and they were later put to death by the Nazi Germans, in 1942 or 1943."

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Eintrag im »Gedenkbuch« des Bundesarchivs:

Spiegel, Albert geboren am 19. Dezember 1879 in Wertheim / - / Baden wohnhaft in Nauheim, Bad

Deportation: ab Darmstadt 30. September 1942, Treblinka, vermutl.

cf. also: https://www.holocaust-erinnerungsmal-badnauheim.com/einzelerwähnung/spiegel-albert/