User:Prisoner at Chalons

My father, a ladies' hat designer for Parisian high society, an anti-Nazi journalist, political activist and a Jew, was held in the German prison at Chalons sur Saone for a few days in March 1941 (during World War 2). The captain of the German garrison exceptionally befriended my father and allowed him to cross over the bridge into Vichy France. The Captain (surnamed Kaufmann) was later executed for treason for this act of decency, as my father discovered after the war. I have been trying to find the family of Captain Kaufmann, to inform them that the head of their family was not a traitor and that he was instead a righteous man, that he did not die in vain, and that my father went on to lead a productive life and establish a large family. All the we know about Captain Kaufmann is that he had been conscripted and was actually a furrier from Leipzig. Leipzig was a major centre of the fur industry. Although Kaufmann is a common name in Germany, there was only a single furrier by that name between 1925 and 1939. An image of the company letterhead can be seen on Wikimedia. File:Die Pelzkonfektion - Rezension der Firma Goldammer & Kaufmann, Leipzig (1925).jpg

Does anyone know how to contact descendants of either Goldammer or Kaufmann who owned the fur business? Unfortunately the business directories did not give first names in this case.