Wolf Pijpeman was a son of Hartog Pijpeman and Sara van der Sluis. He was a dealer in sponges. On 25 September 1901 he married in Rotterdam Roosje Trijtel, a daughter of Hartog Samuel Trijtel and Hester Brandel. The couple had eight children, namely Hartog, Samuel Hartog, Meijer, Joseph, Sara, Jacob, Philip and Abraham. Only Sara has survived the Holocaust. His wife Roosje Trijtel passed away on 17 October 1926 in Rotterdam but he himself and all his sons were killed in the Shoah.
Since the passing of his wife in 1926, Wolf Pijpeman resided at various addresses in Rotterdam; per 19 February 1927 at Trouwsteeg 13b, per 10 January 1935 at Mauritsstraat 10 4e, then at Vriendenlaan, Warmoezeniersstraat, at Adrianastraat 38a and per 26 October 1940 at C.P. Tielestraat 12 (emergency shelter).
Wolf Pijpeman was killed in Auschwitz on arrival there 19 October 1942, after he was put on transport from Westerbork 16 October 1942. His death is recorded in the certificate of death nr. 459 from the register of deaths of Rotterdam, 1951, v1-078.
City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration card of Wolf Pijpeman; website www.wiewaswie.nl; file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Wolf Pypeman (written with y instead ij) and the registered death in 1951 in Rotterdam.