You are now in the place where the Knopf family lived in the 1920s.Mendel Knopf, born July 13, 1897 in Warta, Poland, came to Halberstadt in the early 1920s with his wife Fradel, née Friede, born July 29, 1900 in Turek, Poland. Here in the Jewish community they found an environment where they could live according to Jewish religious law without any problems.The Knopfs were observant Jews. They ran a wholesale tobacco business first near the fish market and then in the Voigtei No. 36, where the family also lived. Mendel and Fradel Knopf had five children: Erna (Knopf) Scott; Max, Lasar, Salli and Hans. The Knopf family enjoyed living in Halberstadt. Fradel Knopf, the mother, had made friends with neighbors who weren’t Jewish. The five kids went to the Jewish school on Westendorf No. 15 and had many friends there.