https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/1675404/

https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/1675399/

http://garysam.typepad.com/photos/ewald/image-2.html

http://www.online-ofb.de/famreport.php?ofb=juden_nw&ID=I7945&nachname=SAMENFELD&lang=de

Moritz was the son of Carl Simon Samenfeld (g. 1852 d. 1939) Diepholz, and Johanna (g. Meyer) Samenfeld, Diepholz (d. 1919).

Carl Simon Samenfeld was taken to prison on Krystallnacht (the night of Nov 9 & 10 1938) and died there a few weeks later.

From “Nazi Crimes against Jews and German Post-War Justice” by Edith Raim: “In Diepholz the 86 year old Jewish butcher Carl Samenfeld, who at the time was bedridden, was torn out of his bed and lodgings and pulled on a hand cart to the local courthouse. He was only wearing a nightcap, a shirt and underpants.”

Rosa (g. Bloch, 1867) was the third wife of Carl Simon Samenfeld. She was deported to Theresienstadt in 1942. Carl’s first wife, Ina Frank, died in 1879. Carl’s second wife, Johanna Meyer, was my great grandmother and she died in 1907.

https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/1675405/

Henriette, who was the second wife of Moritz, was deported to the Warsaw ghetto.

https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/1675400/

Johanna (Samenfeld) Simon was a first cousin of my Opa Adolph Samenfeld. She was deported to Warsaw.

https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/2079649/

Karl Isadore Samenfeld was the brother of Johanna (Samenfeld) Simon, and also a first cousin of my Opa Adolph Samenfeld..

https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/1944889/

Minna (Schönfeld) Samenfeld, was the wife of Karl Isadore Samenfeld.

https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/1944769/

Alfred Samenfeld was also a brother of Johanna (Samenfeld) Simon, and also a first cousin of my Opa Adolph Samenfeld.

https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/1675398/

Herman Samenfeld was a nephew to my Opa Adolph Samenfeld, and also my father’s first cousin. Herman was the son of Adolph’s sister, Frieda Samenfeld who was not married to Herman’s father. the fate of Frieda is unknown.

https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/1675401/

The link below is another source for information on the Samenfeld & Jacobsohn family members:

Escaped, Expelled, Deported and Murdered Jewish Fates in the Nazi Era: Landkriess Diepholz

Includes information for both the Samenfeld & Jacobsohn families. (this is in German, please translate)

Also, you may have to copy & paste into your browser.

http://www.juedische-geschichte-diepholz.de/13schicksale_nazizeit2.htm

Alfred Samenfeld, b. on 8.11.1898 in Diepholz, deported on 8.11.1941 to Minsk

Steinweg passage 28

Alfred Samenfeld was the sixth and youngest child of the Jewish couple Julius, also Joseph, Jacob Samenfeld (born 13.10.1847) and Bertha, born. Frankenberg (born 14.9.1856 in Warmsen), was born in Diepholz in the Prussian province of Hanover. His parents had married on April 28, 1880. His father ran a grocer’s shop in Diepholz, Mühlenstraße 3. In the book of Falk love time and Herbert Major “In the footsteps of Jewish history in Diepholz” recalls a Diepholzer eyewitness in 1997: “Julius seed field was called Plünnenjulius and sold mixed goods, including candy, he was a little man in frock coat and cylinder.”

In 1905, when Alfred was seven years old, his eighteen-year-old brother Ivan (born October 29, 1880) emigrated to Havana. His sister Mathilde (born 9.3.1882) did not meet Alfred, she died shortly after her birth. There were three other siblings: Siegfried Julius (born 2.9.1883), Carl Isidor (born 21.9.1885) and Johanna Bianka (born 24.2.1893), she married on February 24, 1920 the merchant Harry Simon (b 8.11.1891) and lived in Uchte in Lower Saxony.

Alfred Samenfeld learned a commercial profession in his hometown Diepholz. He participated in the First World War and was severely wounded in 1918 by a shrapnel. Due to this war injury he remained handicapped in his mobility and later received a small monthly pension of 20.60 Reichsmark.

After the end of the war, Alfred Samenfeld worked as a clerical employee in Memel, Linden, Halle and Erfurt for various “intestine operations”. From 1924 to 1928 he worked in the business of his father in Diepholz and until November 1929 in the bookstore Fromberg. As a result of the economic crisis, Alfred Samenfeld was unemployed, but first found a temporary job with a master baker. His father died in 1931 in Uchte.

On 12 October 1932, Alfred Samenfeld came to Hamburg and moved into a room for subtenancy in Hammerbrookstraße 56 in St. Georg, where his brother Carl had already been registered. Carl Samenfeld went to Berlin in October 1933 as a representative. After the census of May 1939 he lived in the Windscheidstraße 34 in the district Charlottenburg. In 1940 he married Minna Schönfeld (born 30.8.1892 in Berlin).

Alfred Samenfeld found in Hamburg, as he had very good credentials, an activity as an agent at the Berlin life insurance on Alten Wall 8. Then he sold as a commission traveler for a trading company on Hornerweg 84 cleaning supplies. In early 1934, he was taken without a trade license as a “peddler” with haberdashery such as laces, etc. by the police, but it remained a warning. Thereafter, Alfred Samenfeld no longer carried out any activity, but received welfare from the Welfare Office. An employee of the Hamburger Arbeitsfürsorge noted after a home visit in his file that Alfred Samenfeld kept a military order in his room and made a malnourished impression in February 1934. At the end of 1938, Alfred Samenfeld lived in the Große Theaterstraße 39a, near the stoker O. Franke. At the beginning of 1938 he moved to the Caffamacherreihe 28, Haus1, to a wife E. Winkler. As a recipient of welfare benefits, he was employed from 1937 three days a week for emergency work in a so-called Jewish column, according to the care first in Waltershof to earthwork on a Schlickfeld, then in Buxtehude, as a civil engineer, where he housed in a special camp for forced labor at Bollweg 20 was. Until February 1940 he worked in a Wandsbeker company in Zollstraße 102.

Alfred Samenfeld last lived in Steinweg Passage 28 with Therese Lewin (see there). From there he was deported to the Minsk ghetto on 8 November 1941 and murdered.

His brother Carl Samenfeld and sister-in-law Minna were deported from Berlin to Auschwitz-Birkenau on 3 February 1943.

Sister Johanna Simon came with her husband Harry on March 31, 1942 from Uchte to Hanover and from there to the Warsaw Ghetto, they were declared dead after the war.

The couple Simon remember stumbling blocks in Uchte.

As of: August 2018
© Susanne Rosendahl