Age 26. 68 Montclair Avenue (rooms), Newark, NJ. Born 7/06/1916, Charlottenburg, Germany. Died on 12/04/1942 (Friday), at 7:05 a.m., at Boston City Hospital, burns and inhalation of smoke (death certificate). Graduate student attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology (death certificate: "chemist"). Companion (or companions) if any at the club unknown. Was reported in the 12/01/1942 Paterson Evening News, Paterson, NJ, as, "...seriously injured with second degree burns." The Tech, M.I.T., 12/08/1942: "After the fire, Oppenheim was confined to the City Hospital, where he was being treated for the burns he had sustained, and where last Thursday...he succumbed." Was raised in Belgium. Graduate of Licencie Universite Libre de Brussels, 1939. To the U.S. with his family in 1939 upon outbreak of war. Was employed by German-based Hoffman-La Roche laboratories (Wikipedia: "During the Second World War, Roche collaborated with the Nazi regime in Germany...They...moved all their Jewish employees to the United States to save them from Nazi attention"). Was single. Was the 482nd Grove fire death (of an eventual 490) and the lone Garden State casualty. Was shown by his popular-usage Americanized first name "Stephen" on the final official November 1943 Boston Committee on Public Safety master list of casualties (given name oddly misspelled "Staphane" on his father-informed death certificate). Was a Belgian citizen (WWII draft registration, October '40, own signature: "Stéphane"), one of at least three male foreign nationals to perish, all college students (also John Billings, age 19, citizen of Brazil; and David Hillman, age 17, citizen of South Africa). Two others lived (Frederick "Ferdie" Bruck, age 21, citizen of Germany; and Isaac Walles, age 29, citizen of British Palestine). Moderate build (WWII draft registration: 5' 9," 150 lbs.). Belgian parents Mr. and Mrs. Paul I. and Gabrielle (Errera) Oppenheim, living in Princeton, NJ. Burial at Temple Israel Cemetery, Wakefield, MA. One of two Grove casualties interred at Temple Israel Cemetery (also patron Miss Shirley Lubell, age 22). Earned unusual mention in 2023 from Karen Dzendolet, a niece of a fire victim in another party, Lieut. Arthur Dzendolet, U.S.N.R., age 28 (not otherwise connected), who observed that her own parents (her father was a brother of Lieut. Dzendolet) and a brother Felix (not present) of Mr. Oppenheim by chance decades later both resided on the same street in the rural Hampshire County hamlet of Pelham, MA. Middle name Errera.

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