Biography

About Esther Scheffer

Esther Scheffer was the fifth child of Salomon Scheffer and Rosetta Victoria Levitus. After her father died in 1930, she was placed at the Jewish girls' orphanage at 171 Rapenburgerstraat in Amsterdam. Upon turning 18, she left the orphanage to help her mother run the household.

Esther Scheffer was caught in August 1942 and deported to Auschwitz via Westerbork. A copy remains of Esther Scheffer's birth certificate.
Joods Historisch Museum, Documentenverzameling, inv.nr 10289, ordner II