My father's Certificate Of Graduation for Welding
June 27, 1941
My father was a welder at the Brooklyn Navy Yard before going into the U S army in 1943.
From my mother's story:
My youngest uncle, Fritz Pfifferling was deported to Shanghai, China in 1939. To China, one could go without a visa. Many people went there if they had nowhere else to go. He died there from dysentery in 1942 at the age of 53. Uncle Fritz was never married.
I used Google translate to determine that this is what my father needed to carry to travel with cattle.
Notice the middle names for my grandparents. Israel and Sarah.
The symbol in the circle is for Halle an der Saale.
The Trauer Album is also at the entry, The Gutmanns.
This is the cover of the document that all Jews in Germany had to carry with them at all times.
It was known as a Kennkarten, (I D card).
This is the piece of paper that saved my Opa Karl's life. It is the document that my grandfather received from former President Hindenburg. He took it with him to Buchenwald
The translation for this most important of paper was provided by Thomas Beck of Datterode, Germany
IN THE NAME OF THE "FUEHRER" AND CHANCELOR (it means Adolf Hitler!)
The Salesman Karl Pfifferling
at Halle/Saale
on the bases of the order of July 13, 1934 in memory of
World War 1914/1918 by Reichspresident Generalfield-
marshall von Hindenburg endowed
CROSS OF HONOUR FOR FRONTFIGHTERS
was decorated.
Halle (Saale), April 8, 1935
The Policepresident. (Policepresident has had also normal administration duties that time - not only police)
On behalf of (by proxy)
Administrationmark
No. 13267/35 SEAL signature
The translation of this identification paper was provided by Thomas Beck of Datterode, Germany
G e r m a n R e i c h
Nationality ID-Card
(for use inside the country)
The cattletrader
Mr. Karl Pfifferling in Halle a. Saale (on the river Saale)
born Sept. 6, 1888 in Halle a. S. (on the Saale river)
has the Reich-cititenship
Halle a. S., October 19, 1936
The Prussian Policepresident
Commissioned
Signature
(Administration marks)
Costs 5,-- Reichsmark
Costlist No. 155
(file No.) II 501 31 or 50/31
My mother's naturaliztion paper. My mother and her family became citizens of the United States on April 20, 1945. She told me that she became a citizen on Hitler's birthday.
My father's naturalization paper. My father became a citizen of the United States of America while he was in the army, stationed at Fort Leonard Wood.