Isidore Scharis

Meijer Scharis was born in Amsterdam on 26 December 1890 and a son of Lodewijk Scharis and Rika de Haas. He was a decorator and upholsterer by trade. On 6 August 1914, he married Grietje van West, a daughter of the florist Salomon van West and Betje Lelie, in Zaandam. When they lived at  Eerste Oosterparkstraat 136 in Amsterdam, the Scharis-van West couple had a daughter, Rika, who was born on 2 A…

The so-called Sterbebücher of Auschwitz includes nearly 69.000 official certificates of death, made out in the camp between July 1941 and December 1943.

According to the "Sterbebücher" (death records) of Auschwitz, Isidore Scharis was murdered there on 24 October 1942. This date is quite different from the official date of death of 31 January 1943, as determined by the Dutch Ministry of Justice after the war. For the time being, the website joodsmonument.nl, list only the dates of death, as published at the time in the "Nederlandse Staatscourant" …

Te fate of the transports in general.

After the women and children were separated from the men upon the arrival of a transport at the Auschwitz station, the usual selections for employment took place. It must be assumed that in general, i.e. except in a number of exceptional cases, even among the direct Auschwitz transports in the Cosel period, only men were assigned for work and that women, as we…