My father's parents, Opa Adolph & Oma Dina Samenfeld.
I have received information about the Samenfeld family from Falk Liebezeit of Diepholz, Germany where the Samenfeld family was from. In the process of constructing this family tree, I have also consulted two other websites.
On March 17, 1684 Samuel and Simon Moyses (Latin for Moses) were allowed by Duke Ernst August of Brunswick and Lunenberg to settle in Diepholz with their families for ten years. They should provide the rural population with loans/credits. At that time, Christians were forbidden from charging other Christians interest. After ten years, on March 27, 1694, the protection letter was renewed.
1. Samuel Moyses
2. Joseph Samuel died in Diepholz after 1763
2. Calman Samuel died in Diepholz after 1777
3. Joseph Calman Samenfeld b. 28 Dec 1769 Diepholz (Butcher) d. 28 Jan 1828 Diepholz
+ Breunchen Meyer b. Bylerberg, Saxe-Meiningen d. 3 Oct 1840 Diepholz
(Until the French occupation 1810-1814 the father's first name was used as a family Name by Jewish families.)
( The French authorities asked for permanent family names the family took up the Samenfeld name.)
(In 1828 the Hannover government requested permanent
last names as well.)
4. Anschel Joseph Samenfeld b. 1804 Diepholz
4. Moses Joseph Samenfeld b. 12 June 1806 Diepholz (Trader) d. 18 Feb 1878
4. Heinemann Joseph Samenfeld b. 19 April 1811 Diepholz
4. August Ludwig Leser Joseph Samenfeld b. 1 Nov 1814 Diepholz d. 9 Dec 1881 Diepholz
(Master butcher and umbrella maker lived at Kolkstrasse 9.)
(baptized Ev. Lutheran in Diepholz on the 13 Sep 1854)
+ Helene Dorothee Elisabeth Reddehase b. 4 July 1824 d. 26 Aug 1888
5. Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm (Fritz) Samenfeld (Butcher) b, 14 Sep 1852 Diepholz d. 6 Dec 1932
+ Wilhelmine Eleonore Dorette Jacobine nee Othberg.
6. Willi Samenfeld b. Diepholz 12 June 1889 (Grocer/Auctioneer)(Bürgermeister/Mayor 1946-1961, appointed by the British Occupation Administration) d. 20 June 1967
+ Heike Petersen
7. Gerd Samenfeld b. 2 Aug 1962 Diepholz d. 26 Jan 2018 Diepholz
+ Susan Windhorst
8. Lena Samenfeld
8. Heike Samenfeld
+ Eduard Blaser
7. Karin Samenfeld b. 1967 Diepholz
+ Timo Zaga
5. Bertha Sophie Christine Samenfeld b. 2 July 1855 Diepholz
5. Carl Hermann Ludwig Samenfeld b. 28 Nov 1857 Diepholz (Butcher) d. 9 July 1939 Diepholz
+ Charlotte Sophie Eliese Alms b. 25 Sept 1859 Diepholz d. 1932 Diepholz
6. Paul Fritz Heinrich Samenfeld (butcher) b. 4 Jul 1899 Diepholz d. 1993 Diepholz
+ Caroline
7. Karl Samenfeld (Fleischermeister) b. 4 Jan 1932 Diepholz d. 29 May 2015 Diepholz
+ Otti Diekmann b. 26 Dec 1932 d. 26 Dec 2021
8. Heike Samenfeld
+ Bambrowicz
9. Simon
8. Barbara Samenfeld
9. Isabella
8. Petra Samenfeld b. 1967 Diepholz
+ Alex Schild (divorced) b. 2 Apr 1889 d. 1955
6. Sophie Samenfeld b. 15 May 1893 Diepholz d. 30 Jun 1982 Diepholz
+ Carl Peterson (divorced)
7. Ralf Petersen
+Liesel
8. Horst Petersen
9. Lena Petersen
7. Gerhard Petersen b. 21 Jul 1917 d. May 2007
6. Elizabeth (Lisbeth) Samenfeld
+ Fritz Gerke (owned a well known hotel in Diepholz)
( In Diepholz there also was Dietrich ( Didi) Samenfeld, his son Horst Samenfeld died in a fight in the air against the British air force during the war and was shot down directly above Diepholz.)
5. August Samenfeld b. 6 Dec 1860 Diepholz d. 31 Aug 1864 Diepholz
5. Friedrich Heinrich Samenfeld b. 9 May 1864 Diepholz d. 12 July 1929 Diepholz
+ Adele Emilie Dorothea Schottler b. 11 Mar 1866 Diepholz
6. Otto Friedrich Heinrich Samenfeld b. 2 Nov 1891 Diepholz d. 2 Sep 1892 Diepholz
6. Louise Bertha Wilhelimine Samenfeld b. 3 Jan 1893 Diepholz d. 25 Mar 1949 Hamburg
+ Mattthaus Ludwig Christian Rottenfusser b. 13 Aug 1885 Hamburg d. Hamburg
4. Marjanne Samenfeld b. 8 June 1817 Diepholz d. 6 July 1877 Diepholz
+ Jacob Blankenberg b. Brussels
(Jakob Blankenberg was never married to Marianne Samenfeld.)
5. Julius Samenfeld b. 13 Oct 1847 Diepholz d. 1931 Uchte
(Later Joseph Jacob Samenfeld)
(He was not entitled to use the name Blankenberg, but that he had
to use the name Samenfeld, signed by the synagogue president Julius Fontheim.)
+ Bertha Frankenberg b. 14 Sept 1856 Warmsen/Stolzenau
6. Iwan Samenfeld (John) b. 29 Oct 1880 Diepholz, emigrated 1905 to Havana, Cuba and then to Los Angeles, CA
+ Katherine (Katie) Berges b. 24 Dec 1890 Austria/Hungary 10 Feb 1960 Los Angeles, CA
7. Frances Samenfeld b. 1911 Los Angeles, CA
7. Walter Samenfeld 15 Jun 1916 Los Angeles, CA d. 2000
+ Helen Winifred Tefft b. 23 Sep 1918 Memphis, TN d. 6 Nov 1973 Bishop, CA
8. Katherine Anna Samenfeld b. 17 Jan 1938 los angeles, CA
+ Jesus Dhillon B. 11 Dec 1930 Tulare, CA d. 16 Dec 2002
8. Helen Jean Samenfeld b. 24 Mar 1940 Los Angeles, CA
+ Robert Collins
9. Michael Walter Collins b. 11 Apr 1960 Oceanside, CA
+ Joyce Armstrong
10. Jillian Cinda Collins
10. Riley Ann Collins
10. Kobey Michael Collins
9. Theresa Jean Collins b. 30 Sep 1961 Indio, CA
+ Brian Murphy b. Texas (divorced)
10. Joshua Adam Murphy b. Palm Springs, CA
10. Megan J Murphy
+ Jeffrey Preston
9. Laura Collins b. 1 Feb 1968 Palm Springs, CA
+ Harding
10. Kenna Harding
10.Austin Harding
10. Parker Harding
(Helen Jean remarried)
+ David B Slama
8. Mark Stuart Samenfeld b. 3 Nov 1944 Los Angeles d. 24 Nov 1944
(Walter Samenfeld remarried)
+ Eleanor Elizabeth Buchanan b. 9 Oct 1918 Los Angeles, CA d. 10 Jan Idyllwild, CA
8. Emily Martha Samenfeld b. 9 Sep 1943 Los Angeles, CA
+ Michael A Pearson b. 1938 Rockford, IL
9. Steven Allan Pearson b. 3 Aug 1962 San Diego, CA
+ Bonnie Rose b. 16 Mar 1964
9. Brian Pearson b. 29 Jul 1970 San Diego, CA
9. Martha Pearson b. 13 Feb 1973 Riverside, CA
8. Waldene Lee Samenfeld b. 27 Sep 1946 Los Angeles, CA
+ Dennis Paul Lacey b. 30 Jan 1944 d. 20 Nov 2012 Fallbrook, CA
9. Gina Marie Lacey b.16 Feb 1967 Oceanside, CA
+ Antonio Benito Jaramillo b. 28 Mar 1968
7. Hazel Samenfeld b. 22 Dec 1918 Los Angeles d. 18 Nov 2000
+ Archie Lowell King b. 30 Jul 1910 Collin, TX d. 1975 Austin, TX
8. Barbara Delores King b. 13 May 1936 Hollywood, CA d. 8 Mar 2001 Albuquerque, NM
8. Archie Lowell King Jr b. 31 Oct 1937 Hollywood, CA d. 2 Dec 2016 Woodland Hills, CA
+ (Hazel remarried) Miller
7. John Samenfeld b. 26 June 1922 Los Angeles, CA d. 2 Dec 1986 Los Angeles, CA
+Anita Mueller (Armita Lucinda Lipjanec) b. 25 Dec 1930 Los Angeles, CA d. 5 Apr 2018 Lynwood, CA (divorced)
8. Paul Thomas Samenfeld b. 30 Nov 1954 Lynwood, CA
+ Dianne Francisco b. 8 Apr 1961 Cumberland, NC (divorced)
9. Justin Charles Samenfeld b. 19 Nov 1986
+ (Anita remarried, Camerena)
9. Jamee Camerena b. Lynwood, CA
+ Gene Price
6. Mathilde Samenfeld b. 1882 Diepholz d. 1882
6. Siegfried Julius Samenfeld b. 1883
6. Karl Isadore Samenfeld b. 21 Sept 1885 Diepholz
resident of Hamburg and Berlin (Charlottenburg)
Deportation: from Berlin 3 Feb 1943, Auschwitz, extermination camp
https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/1944889/
+ Minna Schönfeld b. 30 Aug 1892 Berlin
Deportation: from Berlin 3 Feb 1943, Auschwitz, extermination camp
https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/1944769/
6. Johanna Bianka Samenfeld b. 24 Feb 1893 Diepholz d. 31 Dec 1945
https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/2079649/
https://www.stolpersteine-uchte.de/home/stolpersteine-uchte/johanna-und-harry-simon/
Deportation: From Gelsenkirchen-Münster-Hanover
31 Mar 1942, Ghettto Warchau, Officially declared dead
+ Harry Simon b. 8 Nov 1891 Uchte
https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/1678431/
https://www.germansynagogues.com/index.php/synagogues-and-communities?pid=54&sid=1281:uchte-warmsen
Deportation: From Gelsenkirchen-Münster-Hanover
31 Mar 1942, Ghettto Warchau, Officially declared dead
6. Alfred Samenfeld b. 8 Nov 1898 Diepholz, resident of Hamburg
Deportation: from Hamburg 8 Nov 1941, Ghetto Minsk,Officially declared dead
https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/1675398/
https://garysam.typepad.com/photos/julius_pfifferling_trippi/alfred.
https://stolpersteine-hamburg.de/index.php? &MAIN_ID=7&p=221&BIO_ID=4866
The Dec. 3rd, 1852 Diepholz census shows the Samenfeld family at Lange Str. 83 (now Lange Str. 45):
1) Moses J. Samenfeld, Handelsmann (trader), 46 years
2) Marjanne, his sister, 35 years
3) her son Joseph Jacob, 5 years
4) her son Carl Samuel, 1 year
(Hannover state archives, files Hann. 74 Diepholz No. 37)
5. Carl Simon Samenfeld b. 11 Aug 1852 Diepholz (Butcher) d. 11 Jan 1939 Diepholz
(Son of #4 Marjanne Samenfeld)
+ (Father was initially listed as H Dieselhorst, but later crossed over, so this is only speculation.)
153rd Carl Simon Seedfeld , * 11.8.1852 Diepholz, taken to prison in the courtyard of the Schloßhof in Nov. 38, resided in May 1939. In Diepholz Hinterstraße 6 [XXII. Federal Archives of Berlin], + 11.1.1939 in Diepholz (Diepholzerliste 1947).
They were taken to prison while their residences were wrecked by the SA in the morning of November 10th, 1938. Carl Simon was too sick to walk the five minutes distance so they put him into a pushcart.
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."
+ Inna Frank b. 1848 Guestrow, Mecklenberg d. 6 July 1879 Diepholz
6. unknown child
6. unknown child
(Carl Simon Samenfeld remarried)
+ Johanne Meyer b. 1845 Nenndorf bei Stolzebau d. 24 May 1907 Diepholz
6. Herman Samenfeld b.1880 d.1881
6. Moritz Samenfeld b. 28 Jan 1882 Diepholz (Butcher, Cattle Trader)
Deportation: From Gelsenkirchen -Münster-Hannover
https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/1675404/
31 March 1942, Warschau, ghetto, Officially declared dead
+ Johanne Ginsberg b. 26 Oct 1882 Varrel/Diepholz d. 23 Nov 1918 Diepholz
7. Ewald Samenfeld b. 26 Oct 1912 Diepholz d. 13 April 1998 Reviera/Buenos Aires
+ Lisa Glaser b. 2 Oct 1924
8. Carlos Sebastian Samenfeld b. 14 Jan 1947 Rivera, Argentina
+ Beba Mirkin b. 26 Aug 1949
9. Martin Samenfeld b. 30 Jun 1981 Rivera, Argentina
+ Florencia Perez
9. Melina Samenfeld b. Rivera, Argentina
8. Mario Arturo Samenfeld b. 4 Oct 1951 Rivera, Argentina
+ Carmen Gerk b. 1 June 1957
9. Carina Samenfeld b. 21 Sept 1975 Rivera, Argentina
+ Luis Ariel Holzmann b. Rivera, Argentina
10. Christian Holzmann b. 3 May 2001 Rivera, Argentina
10. Barbara Aylen Holzmann b. 21 Feb 2007 Rivera, Argentina
9. Betina Samefeld b.28 Nov 1980 Rivera, Argentina
+ Silvio Gabriel Kiihn b. 26 Aug 1974
10. Sofia b. 10 Jan 2009 Rivera, Argentina
10. Juan Roman b. 23 Nov 2011 Rivera, Argentina
9.Ariel Samenfeld b. 23 Apr 1987 Rivera, Argentina
7. Arthur Samenfeld b. 2 Jan 1914 Diepholz
Deportation: From Gelsenkirchen -Münster-Hannover
https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/1675399/
31 March 1942, Warschau, ghetto, Officially declared dead
(Moritz Samenfeld remarried)
+Justine Henriette Neumann-Neitzel b. 21 May 1892 Blumenthal/Hanover
Deportation: from Gelsenkirchen-Münster-Hannover
d. 31 Mar 1942 Ghetto Warschau
https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/1675400/
( Henriette's brother: Louis Neumann d. 25 Jan 1945 KZ Mauthausen
Brother: Arthur, & wife, 2 children & son in law (all 5) d. 28 Jul 1942 Ghetto Minsk )
6. Adolph Samenfeld b. 25 Jan 1884 Diepholz d. 24 March 1933 Lavelsloh
+Dina Heynemann b. 3 Oct 1878 Lavelsloh, Prussia d. 8 Mar 1970 Milwaukee, WI, USA
To avoid repetition, please go to the following link to view more of the family of Adolph & Dina Samenfeld. Scroll down to Irma (Samenfeld) Jacobsohn & my father, Erich Samenfeld:
More siblings of Adolph Samenfeld, for a total of 7, all with Carl and wife #2 Johanne:
6. Herman Samenfeld b. 1886 Diepholz d. 1945 (Lutheran)
(moves to Osnabrueck in 1909 from Achmer near Bramsche)
+ Luise Schaechter b. 1888 Osnabruck
7. Hildegard (Lina Elise) Samenfeld b. 8 Feb 1910 Osnabruck
+ Westrup
6. Marta Samenfeld b. 1888 Diepholz
6. Emma Samenfeld b. 1888 Diepholz
6. Frieda Samenfeld b. 8 June 1889 Diepholz
Frieda Seedfeld , * 8.6.1889 in Diepholz, after a long stay in Osnabrück, 1923 after DH pulled, further fate unknown. Declared dead.
7. Herman Samenfeld b. 14 Sep 1922
resident of Osnabrück, Diepholz and Hamburg
Deportation: from Hamburg 8 Nov 1941, Minsk, ghetto
https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/1675401/
156th Hermann Seedfeld, 14.9.1922 in Osnabrück as a non-union. Son of Frieda Samenfeld moved with mother from Osnabrück to Diepholz in 1923, moved to Hamburg in 1937 (Diepholzerliste 1947) "1942 evacuated by Gestapo", dep. And + in Minsk
(This German to English translation uses the term "non-union" this probably means that Frieda was not married and that Herman had to take his mother's last name.)
(Carl Samenfeld remarried again to 3rd wife, no children are known)
+ Rosa Bloch b. 24 Dec 1866 Barnstorf
Deportation: from Hanover 23 July 1942 Ghetto Theresienstadt d. 17 Oct 1942
https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/1675405/
More children of #3. Joseph Calman Samenfeld & Breunchen Meyer, grandparents of my grandfather, Adolph Samenfeld.
4. Calman Joseph (Charles) Samenfeld b. 30 June 1819 Diepholz, Germany
(brother of my great-great grandmother, Marjanne Samenfeld)
+ Rivka b.1816 Bremen, Germaany
5. Charles Samenfeld b. 1845 Brooklyn, NY
5. Joseph Samenfeld b. 1847 Brooklyn, NY
5. Mark Samenfeld b. 1849 b. Brooklyn, NY d. 1922 NY
+ Julia Barbara Dressner b. 29 Apr 1854 NY d. 26 Nov 1917 NY
6. Lee Samenfeld b. 18 Oct 1875 NY d. 21 Nov 1940 Brooklyn, NY
+ Emma Hering b. 4 Nov 1888 NY d. Jan 1978 Bronx, NY
7. Eleanor C Samenfeld b. 1911 New York
+ Morris Smoler b. 2 Feb 1907 NY d. Jan 1986 Leonia, NJ
7. Mark Samenfeld b. 4 Jun 1922 New York
6. Joseph Samenfeld b. 18 Oct 1875 NY d. 5 Sep 1937 Germany
6. Bertha Samenfeld b. Jun 1878 NY
+ Herman May b. 6 Feb 1885 d. Dec 1963
7. Mildred M May b. 1911 New Jersey d. 4 Sep 1983 Camino, CA
6. Carrie Samenfeld b. Sep 1880 NY d. NY
+ Charles Mathias Meyer b. 1884 NY d. 1955 New York
7. Jeanette Julia Meyer b. 19 Apr 1910 NY d. 18 Apr 1990 Santa Clara, CA
+ Marcus L Bermann b. 26 Jul 1909 d. Mar 1984 Queens, NY
+ John Alexander Schirreff b. 17 Jul 1917 United Kingdom d. 5 Oct 1989 Monterey, CA
+ Hellenbach b. 1910
7. Muriel Clarice Meyer b. 1917 Brooklyn, NY d. 1 Nov 1966 NY
+ Charles A Levy b. 21 Aug 1911 NY d. 6 Oct 1979
6. Charlotte Victoria Samenfeld b. Feb 1887 Brooklyn, NY
+ Elias A Cohen b. 1889 NY
7. Eugene Cohen b. 7 Nov 1911 Brooklyn, NY d. 7 Jul 1995 Lake Worth, FL
+ Helene Paul
8. Joyce Lee Cohen b. 29 Dec 1940
7. Lloyd Cohen b. 12 Aug 1917 Brooklyn, NY d. 16 Jan 2006 Franklin Square, NY
7. Julian b. 1921 d. 2002
6. Florence Samenfeld b. 11 Dec 1889 Brooklyn, NY
+ Jacob Horowitz b. 1891 Russia
7. Muriel Horowitz b. 1928
+ Charles Singer
6. Ruth Samenfeld b. 23 Apr 1895 NY
+ Eugene Adolph Hornberger b. 1889 NY d. Dec 1974 Cliffside Park, NJ
7. Elaine Gloria Hornberger b. 29 Mar 1921 Brooklyn, NY d. 24 Jul 1990
+ Roepe
6. Estelle Samenfeld b. 26 Aug 1897 NY d. 29 Dec 1955
5. Betsey Samenfeld b. 1851
5. Henry Samenfeld b. 1852
5. Louis Samenfeld b. 9 Jul 1855 Brooklyn, NY d. 1917 Newark, NJ
+ Anna Baker b. 19 Sep 1866 Brooklyn, NY d. 26 Apr 1933 East Orange, NJ
6. Charles Samenfeld b. 10 Nov 1886 Brooklyn d. 6 Jan 1962 NJ
+ Mathilda Marisa Lena Erd b. 24 Feb 1889 Germany d. 1995 NJ
7. Louis Samenfeld b. 1917 New Jersey
7. Arthur Samenfeld b. 1920 New Jersey
7. Charles Samenfeld b. 15 Apr 1925 New Jersey d. 8 Jun 1996 Mendham, NJ
(2 more children)
6. Louise Samenfeld b.14 Jan 1888 d. 11 Jan 1959
+ Harry Jones
(2 children)
6. William Samenfeld b. 15 Feb 1889 Brooklyn, NY d. 24 Jun 1944
+ Sally
6. Mable Samenfeld b. 15 Nov 1891 d. 30 Mar 1896
6. Ruth Samenfeld b. 10 Oct 1893 d. 1 Jul 1895
6.Herbert Samenfeld b. 14 Apr 1896 Brooklyn, NY d.19 May 1971 New Jersey
+ Estelle Bertha Andrew b. 17 Jun 1898 St Kits, Brit West Indies d. Jan 1989 Bradenton, FL
7. Herbert William Samenfeld b. 7 Mar 1924 Newark, NJ d. 17 Aug 2020
+ Melanie Marie Maxwell b. 29 Sep 1924 New Jersey d. 27 Apr 2018 Denver, CO
8. Herbert Scott Samenfeld b. 26 Oct 1951 Minneapolis, MN
8. Lisa Gae Samenfeld b. 25 Aug 1954 New Haven, CT
+ Dennis Michael Ross b. 14 Aug 1951 Cleveland, OH
9. Caitlin Nicole Ross b. 12 Aug 1994 Wheat Ridge, CO
7. Audrey Ruth Samenfeld b. 27 Sep 1927 East Orange, NJ
+ Frederick Julius Verchot b. 30 Jun 1927 Orange, NJ
8. Frederick Allan Verchot b. 25 Oct 1951 Newark, NJ d. 27 Dec 1986 Ocala, FL
8. Barbara Estelle Verchot b. 20 Oct 1953 New Brunswick, NJ
+ Charles Feid b. 1948
9. Rebekah Jane Feid b. 10 Aug 1973 Philipsburg, NJ
+Sia Gholamreza Anissi Agdassi 2 Jan 1958 Tehran, Iran
+ Gordon Griffith Green
+ Gary Edward Peders
8. John William Verchot b. 17 Jan 1955
+ Michelle kidd b. 5 Dec 1957 Easton, PA
9. Karla Michelle Verchot b. 1 Oct 1984
9. Neil Preston Verchot b. 13 Oct 1986
6. Sylvester Samenfeld b. 9 Dec 1898 New York d. 24 Dec 1963
+ Margot (Margaret) b. 1906 New Jersey
7. Margaret J Samenfeld b. 1932 New Jersey
7. Elizabeth A Samenfeld b. 1936 New Jersey
6. Arthur Samenfeld b. 16 Apr 1900 d. 10 May 1959 E Orange, NJ
6. Blanche Samenfeld b. 24 Aug 1903 d. 18 Apr 1949 E Orange, NJ
6. Gertrude Samenfeld b. 17 Feb 1907
+ George Bender b.1904 Reading, PA d. 1980 NJ
7. George Bender Jr b. 22 Sep 1930 East Orange, NJ
+ Gerry Devoe b. 14 Jan 1931 Newark, NJ
6. Mildred Samenfeld b. 4 Nov 1910 d. 16 Dec 1968 NJ
+ William Grace
7. William Grace
7. Florence Grace
(6. 2 still births Samenfeld)
4. Seela (Betti) Samenfeld b. 23 Oct 1823 Diepholz
4. Abraham Joseph Samenfeld b. 25 June 1826 Diepholz