Heynemann/Samenfeld House

In the center of the photo is the house in Lavelsloh, Nienbburg, Lower Saxony where my father and my Tante Irma were born. It is also where they had their cattle/livestock business, and also did their butchering.

Army Group

Adolph Samenfeld is the man sitting and wearing an apron. In this picture he resembles my father.

Heynemann Family

My great grandparents, Bertha (geb Lilienfeld) & Isaak Heynemann are in the front here. In the back are my grandmother, Oma Dina Samenfeld is behind her father, and then her brother Louis, and her sister Johanna Fleischhacker.

This picture was taken in Lavelsloh, Germany in 1910. Louis and Johanna had both emigrated to America. Louis Heynemann lived in Cincinatti. According to the passenger list, Johanna Fleischhacker was visiting with her two children, Milfred (5) & Harry (4) from New York.

The last Jewish family emigrated.

From the Diepenau newspaper, 4 August 1938.

My Uncle Walter Jacobsohn explained that this article states that it was a sad day when the Samenfeld family left.

Heynemann Gravestone

Lavelsloh, Prussia

Army Group

My Opa Adolph Samenfeld is third from the left in this photo. Adolph Samenfeld was exposed to the nerve gas that was used during the Great War. He lived as an invalid taking morphine until he died in 1933.

Isaak & Bertha Heynemann

My great grandparents,Isaak & Bertha Heynemann, with my aunt and my father. Tante Irma is on the left & my father Erich is on his grandmother’s lap.

Oma Dina, Uncle Louis, my father Erich, Tante Irma, & Isaak Heynemann.

This photo must have been taken when Uncle Louis made one of his visits back to Germany.

My great grandmother had passed away in 1914. Oma’s sister Johanna, like Uncle Louis, had emigrated to America. My Opa Adolph Samenfeld was in the army.

Carl, Adolph, & Moritz Samenfeld

My grandfather, Adolph Samenfeld, is in the center.His father, Carl Samenfeld, is to his right. The man to the left of Adolph is his brother Moritz Samenfeld who was deported, with his son Arthur and his second wife Henriette, to the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 where he died. Moritz’ s other son, Ewald Samenfeld, emigrated to Argentina.

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 bedridde, 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.”

Adolph Samenfeld was exposed to the nerve gas that was used during the Great War. He was in fact, a member of “Konigliches Kommando des Oldenburg Infanterie Regiments Nr. 91” He lived as an invalid taking morphine until he died in 1933.

I already had this photo but my cousin, Harold Jacobsohn, sent it to me with the correct information. My Aunt Irma (Samenfeld) Jacobsohn had the names written under the photo.