Henry Sharp collection

Identifier
irn43825
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2011.260.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

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.

Subjects

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.