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Group portrait of members of the religious Kibbutz Hafetz Hayyim, sponsored by Poale Agudat Yisrael.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 23164
Group portrait of members of the religious Kibbutz Hafetz Hayyim, sponsored by Poale Agudat Yisrael. Among those pictured is Yitchok Scharf (front row, center), the leader of the kibbutz. Also pictured is Gershon Goldbrenner.

Group portrait of members of the religious Kibbutz Hafetz Hayyim, sponsored by Poale Agudat Yisrael.

Among those pictured is Yitchok Scharf (front row, center), the leader of the kibbutz. Also pictured is Gershon Goldbrenner.

Date
1946
Locale
Hohenems, Austria
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Austria -- Hohenems
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: 2006-10-30 00:00:00
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