Lili Scharf Deutsch collection

Identifier: irn37522
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009 by Lili Scharf Deutsch.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a canvas folder and correspondence relating to the experiences of Lili Scharf Deutsch and her family in prewar and wartime Hungary, and postwar, when Lili, after liberation from Bergen Belsen concentration camp emigrated to Palestine.

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Lili Scharf Deutsch papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38902
- English
- 1937-1946
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Collection of materials including Red Cross letters, correspondence, written between members of the Scharf family, primarily written by the donor after her liberation from Bergen Belsen to her family in Palestine; dated 1937-1946.
Handmade canvas folder used by a Hungarian Jewish refugee
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38903
- English
- overall: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Handmade canvas notebook used by Lili Scharf to store correspondence from her family in Israel. It was made for her by her sister, Judith, after her postwar immigration to Israel. In summer 1944, soon after Germany invaded Hungary, Lili, 16, her brother, Bondy, and her parents Herman and Rachel were deported from the Jewish ghetto in Kisvarda to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Her parents were gassed upon arrival. Bondy was sent to Dachau where he was killed. Lili found her sister Judith, who she thought was in Palestine, in Auschwitz. Lili was sent to Birenbaumel, then via death march to Be...

Lili Scharf Deutsch collection

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Lili Scharf Deutsch papers

Handmade canvas folder used by a Hungarian Jewish refugee