Henry Sharp collection
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Henry Sharp
Biographical History
Henry Sharp (1925-2011) was born Henry Scharf in Krakow, Poland on September 23, 1925. He was forced into the Krakow ghetto in 1942 and survived multiple concentration camps including Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jawiszowice, Buchenwald, and Ohrdruf. While in Buchenwald he changed his name to Henry Ostrowski hoping that he would receive better treatment with a Polish name. He was liberated in April 1945 at Buchenwald. His parents Jonas and Paula Scharf (born Pesla Gumplowicz) and his brother Marcel Scharf perished in the camps.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Henry Sharp
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Henry Sharp donated the Henry Sharp papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011.
Scope and Content
The Henry Sharp papers consist of identification and registration papers documenting Sharp’s immediate post-war life as a Holocaust survivor in liberated Germany. The collection also includes photographs of Buchenwald after liberation.
System of Arrangement
The Henry Sharp papers are arranged as a single file.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Concentration camp inmates.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Identification documents.
- Document