Salomon Oberzimmer came from a long-established Jewish family of Bad Kissingen whose roots can be traced back to the beginnings of the 19^th century. His father, the cattle dealer David Oberzimmer, had married his cousin Luise Mainzer in 1847. The first children of the couple had died early. Only four sons lived to their adult years: Maier (*1856), Salomon (*1862), Hayum (*1864) and Jakob (*1867). Salomon Oberzimmer was born in Bad Kissingen on June 16, 1862.

He attended Kissingen Realschule for only a short time, what the reasons of that were is difficult to explain from reading the student’s file. Obviously, he had already attended a secondary school somewhere else as he entered class 6 in October 1877 but left the school again already in May 1878. The reason given in the file is “illness”.

In November 1887, Salomon Oberzimmer married the merchant’s daughter Sophie Klopfer from Hürben. Since at least that time he lived in Munich. In September 1888, the oldest daughter Lilly was born, one year later Maria who died when she was only three. The sons Theodor (*1894) and Ludwig (*1897) followed. Salomon’s wife died early; she definitely didn’t live to experience the wedding of her oldest daughter Lilly in 1919.

Salomon Oberzimmer was a wholesale merchant for cigarettes and raw tobacco in Goethestrasse. His two sons later became his partners in running it. After the Nazis’ seizure of power, in December 1933, Salomon Oberzimmer emigrated to Sofia in Bulgaria with his youngest son Ludwig and continued being successful in the tobacco trade there. For the time being, the older son Theodor stayed in Munich. But when the situation there became increasingly hopeless and dangerous, he also emigrated to his brother and father to Sofia.

The further fate of Salomon Oberzimmer still remains unclear. He possibly died in Bulgaria because he doesn’t seem to be with them when his sons move to Belgium at the beginning of the war. When the war started, Ludwig and Theodor Oberzimmer had transferred oriental tobaccos worth I million Reichsmark from their residence in Sofia to Antwerp where they made their homes now. From there, they didn’t manage to emigrate abroad in time as their visas had been declared invalid in the meantime. They succeeded in going to France. Later, the Oberzimmer brothers were interned in the Camp of Gurs together with a friend from their youth, Hans Klipstein who lived in Gent/ Belgium. Hans Klipstein managed to escape from Gurs, which he couldn’t persuade them to try as well. He survived the Shoa. The Oberzimmer brothers were deported to Auschwitz/ Oświęcim Extermination Camp on August 17, 1942 on the 20^th transport from Drancy and murdered there.

Salomon Oberzimmer's daughter Lilly Straus, who was married to Josef Straus, a native of Steinach, managed to escape to the USA in 1940. Both lived in Munich until September 1940. They boarded the "Heian Maru" in Yokohama, Japan, and reached Seattle in Washington State at the end of October 1940. Lilly Straus died in California in October 1973.