This is a picture of the memorial to the synagogue that my mother’s family attended.
please click http://www.gedenkbuch.halle.de then Halle (Saale)
Julius Pfifferling was the brother of my grandfather Karl Pfifferling, he died in Buchenwald. Also listed is Opa’s youngest brother, Fritz, Who died in Shanghai.
"ASR-Aktion" on 25.04.1938, category "ASR Jew" [6], "Arbeitsschönreich"
prisoners The Leopold Nußbaum and Julius Pfifferling from Halle were the
first Jews to be killed "in Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
Memorial at the Jewish cemetery.
Julius Pfifferling:
http://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/en1000053
http://www.gedenkbuch.halle.de/gbdatensatz.php?num=102
Fritz Pfifferling:
http://www.gedenkbuch.halle.de/gbdatensatz.php?num=434
Since receiving the Gutmann & Katzenstein family trees, I have learned that my Oma Julchen Pfifferling had a first cousin, Pauline Katzenstein (geb. Gutmann), and that my Opa Karl Pfifferling had a first cousin, Alfred Katzenstein and that they were married to each other. In my mother’s story, she mentions that her parents were introduced through mutual cousins. Pauline and Alfred were the cousins who introduced my grandparents to each other. Pauline and Alfred Katzenstein, who were residents of Eisleben, were deported from Halle/Saale to Sobibor on 6/1/1942. (Just like so many other things I never knew this.)
This, of course, is sad enough but then I realized something else. The little 3-year-old girl, Hannacha Cohn, that my mother babysat for, and her mother, and her grandmother were also on the same transport from Halle/Saale to Sobibor. All 5 of them perished three days later. In all, there were 59 persons on the 6/3/1942 transport to Sobibor and all were murdered on 6/3/1942.
On the page titled,”Die Toten Der Stadt Halle”, you will find Hannacha Cohn. She was the little girl that my mother took care of, and was the youngest of the Jews of Halle to perish in the Nazi concentration camps.
From my mother’s story: I worked in a Jewish household. The Cohn’s had a baby girl Hannah and I took care of her. I knew this family for many years. They had a variety wholesale business next to where we lived on Franke Strasse. Mr. Cohn left for England in June of 1939. His wife and little Hannah were to follow but it was too late and they perished like so many other people.
Hannaacha Cohn:
http://www.gedenkbuch.halle.de/gbdatensatz.php?num=6
Hannacha with her mother Recha Cohn:
http://www.gedenkbuch.halle.de/gbdatensatz.php?num=21
Julius Pfifferling:
http://www.zeit-geschichten.de/th_01_v_79.
The Cohn family:
http://www.zeit-geschichten.de/th_01_v_5.
Hannacha Cohn:
These are the Stolpersteine (Tripping Stones) for the Cohn family.
Hannach Cohn, her mother, and her grandmother. Tripping Stones are placed on the sidewalks in front of rhe addresses of Hallescher Jews that perished in the concentration camps. There are other cities in Germany that also have them.
src=”http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Stolperstein_Halle_Cohn.JPG/800px-Stolperstein_Halle_Cohn.JPG” alt=”File:Stolperstein Halle Cohn.JPG”/> Recha Grünspa (h) n was born in Sonneberg and married on 25 January 1938 the native of Halle lawyers and businessman Richard Cohn. [53] On 12 November 1938 was their daughter Hannacha Peril Cohn to the world. [54] Richard Cohn managed to escape to England in 1939. Recha Cohn later moved with her daughter to her mother in 1879 born in Coburg Thekla Cohn [55] into the Hindenburg Strasse 63 (now built over). On 1 June 1942 was deported and murdered all three in the Sobibor extermination camp two days later. Hannacha Peril Cohn was the youngest victims of the Holocaust from Halle. [56]
http://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/en901006
There is now a stone to represent my mother’s uncle, Julius Pfifferling. Download Julius Pfifferling Translation to English:Download Julius2
Stolperstein list for Halle an der Salle: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Stolpersteine_in_Halle_(Saale) Please click to see the tripping stones for the Hallescher Jews.
Franckestrasse 12 (Formerly17)
I have had a Stolpersteine placed for my grandfather’s older brother Julius Pfifferling: 
Left click to enlarge.
English translation of the dedication for the tripping stone for Julius Pfifferling.
Josef Pfifferling, named Julius, came from Wanfried. He had three brothers and three sisters. In World War I he served as a soldier. Later he ran with his brother Karl, a cattle and horse action in the road Franke Hall. 1936 or 1937 the business had top be resolved. Under the “work-shy Action Empire” was Julius Pfifferling 25 April 1938 interned in Buchenwald Concentration Camp. He died there on 16 May 1938. He was officially “shot while trying to escape”. Julius Pfifferling wife Dorthea managed to escape from Germany. You probably first came to Shanghai and later to England. Of his siblings only brother, Karl survived the Second World War. He succeeded in 1939 to escape to the United States.
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http://www.zeit-geschichten.de/th_01a.htm
The transport of 1 June 1942 From Kassel-Halle to Sobibor, which included Alfred & Pauline Katzenstein, Tekla, Recha, & Hannacha Cohn and Selma Appel:
In 155 Halle, 155 Jews were joined, as is evident from the correspondence of the Gestapo Hall with the Chief Financial Officer in Magdeburg [LHASA Magdeburg, MD G1 / 390]. The Halle transport was also planned very early. The people who were destined for the deportation were informed about their imminent “emigration” in Halle on April 11, in the municipal office to receive further instructions and to complete the declarations of assets. Several suicides from this period are documented, such as for the married couple Gertrud and Siegfried Reyersbach from Weißenfels, the 16.4. voluntarily separated from life [300 years of Jews in Halle, Halle, 1992, p. 255, 259].
(In the seven weeks between April 11, 1942 when the people were informed of the deportation, and transport of June 3, 1942, 59 people in Halle an der Saale committed suicide.)
History Of The Samenfeld/Pfifferling Family 
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