The gravestone in Lavelsloh of my greatgrandparents: Isaak Heynemann 1842/1924, and Bertha Gelchen Lilienfeld 1841/1914. From the history of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking world: ” In August 1938 the last Jewish inhabitants left the village together with the Samenfeld family.” http://garysam.typepad.com/photos/heynemann_samenfeld_famil/the-last-jewish-family-emigrated.html

Shanghai – Zuflucht und Wartesaal. Hallesche Juden im Exil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P545BpuZtu4&feature=youtu.be https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/shanghais-jewish-quarter-hongkou?fbclid=IwAR26yC4txcXTY5D9dRAkw1JEsbykZA-E3yVZ4tWXbn6bT6gKQmrb6521iFg

Family Tree for Oma Dina’s mother: Bertha Lilienfeld Front row: my great grandmother, Bertha Gehlchen (geb Lilienfeld) Heynemann, my great grandfather, Isaak Heynemann / Back row: my great aunt Johanna (geb Heynemann) Fleischhacker, my great uncle Louis Heynemann, and my grandmother Dina (geb Heynemann) Samenfeld

  Wedding announcement for my Uncle Walter's aunt & uncle.  The Löwenstein family, Lavelsloh, Diepenau, Lower Saxony, Germany. Uncle Walter's Aunt Henny (Jacobsohn), her husband Louis, children Lisbeth & Herbert. The Löwensteins lived across the street from the Samenfeld family. This was the reason that my Uncle Walter met my Tante Irma. (Please refer to…

This is the monument in Gross-Gerau, Hesse, Germany that honored the Jewish soldiers from the area who were killed in the Great War. The monument was destroyed in 1938.   

Lavelsloh Jewish Cemetery This is an article that was written by Muchael Schwarze and published in the Lavelsloh newspaper on March, 2022. 1938 – Die letzte jüdische Familie verläßt Lavelsloh 1938 – The last Jewish family leaves Lavelsloh The Samenfeld family from Lavelsloh fled Germany in 1938 from the National Socialists. The family had been…