Family Story from Ruth Schaerf (Sharvit) Sternbach

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My father, Iacob Schärf had a special work permit (being an employee of the "Argenta" enterprise), which meant that my father, my mother Lina, me and my grandfather and grandmother, Isac and Cilly Henia Ziegler that we  can stay in Ghetto in Czernowitz, and not to be transported to Transnistria. Here was included also Gisia Ziegler, cousin of my mother, who had been an orphan since the age of 4 and was living with us.


This in the translation of what is written on the document above

Office of the Jewish district at Cernauti
Census for the inhabitants that have Jewish blood.
Identification carte
Conform (Decree) Low Nr. 3416 published on "Monitorul Oficial" Nr.299/1941
CERTIFICATE Nr. 23102
We received the complete census sheet from the declaring Schärf Jacob resident in Cernauti,
Street Universitatii Nr.9
Special authorization to remain in Czernovitz

My mother's card below:



Lina and Iacob Schärf 1937

Special authorization to remain in Czernovitz for my grandfather and grandmother below:




Cilly and Isac Ziegler

My card and my family's card below:




The authorities needed my father, Jacob Schärf, for making expertise (estimation) from the taken jewels from the Jews. Therefore, we remain in Czernowitz, during the war, but we had to move from our nice apartment from the Universitaetsstrasse 9 to the Jewish Ghetto.

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