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Berditschewsky Anna (Chane)

Surname
Berditschewsky
Birth Name
Scher
First Name
Anna (Chane)
Date of Birth
08-27-1896
Place of birth
Swienciany/bei Wilnau
Other family members

Parents: Noah and Fanny Feiga Scher née Zerkinsky
Siblings: MaxKlaraSalomon Moses
Spouse: Michael Berditschewsky
Children: Marthe m. Weiss und Rolf

Address

Salinenstraße 40

Profession
Emigration/Deportation

June 1933 emigrated to Straßbourg  

Date of death
08-06-1968
Place of death
Straßbourg

biography


Anna Berditschewsky, née Scher was born in Swienciany near Wilna (Vilnius)/ Lithuania (which belonged to the Russian Czar’s Empire in those days) on August 27, 1896 as the daughter of Noah Scher and his wife Fanny, née Zerkinsky. Her father Noah worked as a fisherman there, but in 1899, he decided to move to Würzburg and earn his living as a travelling tradesman at markets and trade fairs. 

In 1903, the Schers opened a seasonal business for “Partiesachen”, things sorted out that were offered at extremely reduced prices. During the summer, they lived in Bad Kissingen, the winters were spent in Würzburg until 1916 when they moved to Bad Kissingen for good. As Eastern Jews they held an exceptional position in the Jewish community of Bad Kissingen. Anna Scher married the goldsmith and watchmaker Michael Berditschewsky who came from Mariupol/ Ukraine and at first lived with him in Fürth, where their daughter Marthe was born in November 1919. In the summer months of 1925 and 1927, the Berditschewskys lived with Anna’s parents in Bad Kissingen once again, where their son Rolf was born in June 1925. 

At the end of June in 1933, the Berditschewskys moved from Fürth to Straßburg/ Strasbourg, where they lived in the following years and were registered as “Russian Refugees”. Anna’s husband ran a radio shop there. In February 1939, their daughter Marthe Berditschewsky married Eric Weiss who had been born in Gera in 1904 and was 15 years her senior. She moved to Saint-Dié/ Vosges with him. Eric Weiss, who had gone underground in Périgueux during the war and had joined a resistance group, was arrested in March 1944, when he was on his way to Toulouse on a conspirational mission and was executed by the “Division Brehmer” in Montignac/ Dordogne. In Spring 1944, the “Division Brehmer” chased resistance fighters as well as Jewish refugees gone underground and carried out massacres of civilians. Anna’s daughter Marthe, who was married to Eric Weiss, survived the Nazi-era, but details are not known. In 2001, she died in France.

After the beginning of the war, Anna Berditschewsky and her husband Michael were evacuated in September 1939 according to the order of the French government and fled – like many members of the Jewish Community of Strasbourg – to Perigueux. Both of them survived the Nazi Era and returned to Strasbourg after the liberation of the city. In the course of restitution proceedings in 1958, Anna Berditschewsky and her brothers Samuel (who was living in Berlin again in the meantime) and Salomon Moses (who was living in Montevideo/ Uruguay) raised demands for withdrawn objects made of gold, silver and precious metals as well as furniture to be given back by Deutsches Reich (“German Reich”). She had even personally travelled to the court trial at the Landgericht (District Court) of Würzburg in November 1960. 

Anna Berditschewsky died in Strasbourg in August 1968 at the age of 71 (Information provided by Hans-Jürgen Beck after a phone call with Nadine Berditschewsky on April 5, 2020). Her husband had already died in Strasbourg in December 1957. 

Photo-Anna-Michel
Anna Berditschewsky née Scher and her husband Michael
Hanna-Scheer-Berlin-1959
Anna Berditschewsky née Scher (Berlin 1959)


References


Meldeunterlagen der Stadt Bad Kissingen, Familienbogen Noah Scher und Polizeiliche Wohnungsmeldung Anna Scher
Archiv der Stadt Straßburg, Hausdatei 603 MW54, Sterberegister 6 E 11
Hans-Jürgen Beck, Kissingen war unsere Heimat, Stand 2017,  S. 1173
Zentrale Datenbank Yad Vashem  externer Link
Le Maitron, Dictionaire Biographique, Fusillés, Guillotinés, Exécutés, Massacrés 1940 - 1944externer Link
Biographische Datenbank Jüdisches Unterfrankenexterner Link
Eintrag Facebook-Seite 1939-1944 Les Juifs en Dordogne, de l'accueil à la persécution.externer Link
Peter Frank, Die Marienstraße in Fürth und ihre früheren jüdischen Bewohner, S.5externer Link
Information Hans-Jürgen Beck nach Telefonat mit Nadine Berditschewsky, 05.04.2020

Photo credits


© Nadine Berditschewsky (durch Kontakt von H.-J. Beck)



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