@AuschwitzMuseum (1/n) Ilse was the daughter of Leni nee Roos, born 29-05-1990 and Julius, born 18-08-1879. The family lived in Karlsruhe. Ilse, although Jewish, went to a catholic school run by nuns. The catholic did not differentiate according to “racial” criteria.
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@AuschwitzMuseum (2/n) This in contrast to public schools which from 1936 were no longer allowed to attend Jewish children. Julius had a business selling wines, spirits, colonial goods and sweets. After the kristallnacht the forced "Aryanization" of all Jewish businesses followed.
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@AuschwitzMuseum (3/n) From August 1939 the Scharff family were forced to live in a "Jewish house". They were no longer allowed to live in "Aryan houses". In August 1939 the family applied to leave for Chile and on 23-11-1939 they got their passports for Visas.
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@AuschwitzMuseum (4/n) But it was no longer possible to leave the country and thus protect their life. On 22-10-1940, on Sukkot, more than 6500 Jews were deported from that area to Gurs camp in the South-West of France. The conditions in the Gurs camp were appalling.😢
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@AuschwitzMuseum (5/n) There was a lack of food, heating, medicine, hygiene, everything that had made up life so far. During winter, the camp turned in a mud puddle.
In Gurs Julius still tried to get out of Europe. He sent a letter to the police headquarters in Karlsruhe asking for passports
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@AuschwitzMuseum (6/n) But he probably never got an answer. The Sharffs received financial support from Leni Scharff's sister, who had escaped to Argentina. The whole of 1941 and the beginning of 1942 they were still hoping to get out. One day they were very close.
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@AuschwitzMuseum (7/n) They were at the the departure boarding house camp in Marseilles, but for some reason this failed again. On 11-04-1942 Leni's sister got last life news from them. It came from the Les Milles camp near Marseille.
On 19-08-1942 they were deported from Drancy to Auschwitz.
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@AuschwitzMuseum (8/8) Their complete story, in German, can be read here:
stolpersteine-guide.de/map/biografie/…
Ilse, you and your parents Julius and Leni will be remembered. 😢💔🕯️✡️
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