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Scher Max Samuel

Surname
Scher
First Name
Max Samuel
Date of Birth
05-13-1893
Place of birth
Swiencany/bei Wilna
Other family members

Parents: Noah and Fanny Feiga Scher née Zerkinsky
Siblings: Anna (Chane) m. BerditschewskyKlaraSalomon Moses
Spouse: Pesla (Perla) née Singer, second spouse: Anny
Children: Cilli, Ella, Bertha m. Murray

Address
Profession
Merchant
Emigration/Deportation

March 1943 deported to Auschwitz
survivor

Date of death
Place of death

biography


Max Scher was born in Swienciany near Wilna/ Vilnius in Lithuania (which belonged to the realm of the Russian Czar then) on May 13, 1893 as the oldest child of Noah Scher and his wife Fanny, née Zerkinsky. His father Noah worked as a fisherman there. In 1899, he decided to move to Würzburg with his family in order to earn his living as a tradesman at markets and fairs.

In 1903, the Schers opened a seasonal business for “Partiesachen” (sorted out textiles reduced in price) in Bad Kissingen. During the summer, they lived in Bad Kissingen, in the winter they stayed in Würzburg until they moved to Kissingen for good in 1916. As Jews from Eastern Europe they had a special status in the Jewish community of Bad Kissingen.

Max Scher, who worked as a merchant, married Perla (Pesla) Singer, who had been born in the Ukranian town of Mosciska west of Lemberg/ Lwiw. They got married in Munich in 1919. In 1921, their daughter Cilli was born in Kempten. In 1927, their second daughter Ella was born in Berlin where the Schers had moved from Bavaria. Max Scher, his wife Pesla and their two daughters were deported from Berlin to Auschwitz/ Oświęcim Extermination Camp in Spring 1943, where his wife Pesla and the two daughters were killed. For Yad Vashem, Bertha Murray dedicated memorial sheets for them. As she called herself a daughter of Pesla Scher, the Schers must obviously have had a further daughter who emigrated to England in time and married there.

According to information from the family, Max Scher survived Auschwitz/ Oświęcim Extermination Camp. There is another proof of that in the residents’ list of the Federal Archive. He married a second time after the war.

Max-Anny-Jessy-Dezember-1953
Max Scher with his second wife Anny, 1953


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Photo credits


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



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