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Studio portrait of four students from the Tarnopol Yeshiva with religious texts.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 23155
Studio portrait of four students from the Tarnopol Yeshiva with religious texts. Pictured on the far right is Yitzchok Scharf.

Studio portrait of four students from the Tarnopol Yeshiva with religious texts.

Pictured on the far right is Yitzchok Scharf.

Date
Circa 1930 - 1935
Locale
Tarnopol, [Ukraine; Tarnopol] Poland
Variant Locale
Ternopol
Ukraine
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Poland -- Religious Life/Weddings
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Sheindel Trebitz Scharf Sussman

About This Photograph

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.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Sheindel Trebitz Scharf Sussman
 
Record last modified: 2006-08-31 00:00:00
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