Studio portrait of four students from the Tarnopol Yeshiva with religious texts.
Overview
- Caption
- Studio portrait of four students from the Tarnopol Yeshiva with religious texts.
Pictured on the far right is Yitzchok Scharf. - Date
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Circa 1930 - 1935
- Locale
- Tarnopol, [Ukraine; Tarnopol] Poland
- Variant Locale
- Ternopol
Ukraine - Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Sheindel Trebitz Scharf Sussman
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Sheindel Trebitz Scharf Sussman
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Yitzchok Scharf was born in Tarnopol, Poland in 1918. He had three sisters and four brothers. The Soviets deported Yitzchok and his brother Moshe to Siberia. They are the only members of their family who survived. After the war Yitzchok Scharf came to an Italian displaced persons' camp where he met and married Sheindel Trebitz from Subotica Yugoslavia. On January 7, 1950 they immigrated to the United States and Yitzchok, now Rabbi Scharf, served as a congregational rabbi for 25 years. He passed away in 1979.
- Record last modified:
- 2006-08-31 00:00:00
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