My parents, Erich and Hilde Samenfeld. My name is Gary Samenfeld and this website is dedicated to the memory of my parents, Erich and Hildegard(geb. Pfifferling) Samenfeld. I want to chronicle what their lives were like as Jews in Germany and the United States. I will be including photographs, documents, and various written materials. My…

Speech, first delivered at Congregation Shir Hadash, 1994: For the purpose of this project I have made several additions to my original speech. My parents, Erich and Hildegard Samenfeld

Descendents of Moses Heynemann Heyum Isaac Grandfather of my  grandmother, Dina Samenfeld. Oma Dina’s father, Isaak Heynemann is in the center of this photo. My dad is to the right of his grandfather. The dog is named Lady. June 20, 1922. (left click to enlarge) Family tree information provided by William C Grafen of Melbourne,…

Irma and Walter Jacobsohn Family recollection, titled: "Seventy Years,Four Months, And Seven Days" My Uncle Walter wrote this story for his 5 grandchildren:

This is a photo of my mother’s uncle and Opa Karl’s oldest brother and his family. Adolph his wife Therese (geb. Dannenbaum), and two of their three children, Hans, and Anna Kaeta. There had been another son, Albert. Albert was shot and killed by communists when he was 13 and further down on the main…

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…

Karl Pifferling My Opa Karl was an officer in the German Army in World War I. He earned the Iron Cross and the Honor Cross, as my mother said, “the latter one saved his life”. When he was taken to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp on Krystalnacht, he carried with him in his coat pocket a…

Kurt Keller was the husband of my mother’s sister, Aunt Lore Keller, and the father of my cousin Sharon Keller. The following is an article from the Milwaukee Journal:

This is a letter that my grandfather received from his lieutenant in WWI. This lietenant obviously did not realize that my grandfather was a Jew. Translation of what is written on this photo: “War 1915 Belgium” “Ancient warrior on guard. But image is not good. When do you think will be peace?”