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Scher Noah
Parents: Abraham Scher and Dobbe née Cikinsky
Spouse: Fanny Lea née Zerkinsky
Children: Max (Samuel), Klara (Chaja), Anna (Channa) Eichle m. Berditschewsky, Salomon Moses
Salinenstraße 40
biography
Noah Scher came from the Lithuanian butcher’s family of Abraham and Dobbe Scher. There are different data concerning the place and date of birth. Sometimes Swienciany (a town north of Vilnius that belonged to the realm of the Czar of Russia in those days) is to be found as place of birth. But there is also Malaty (Moletai) mentioned in the files that is situated 60 kms west of Swienciany. Concerning the year of birth, you find 1867, 1868 and 1870.
Noah Scher learned the trade of a wig maker but also worked as a fisherman for some time. In 1892, he married Fanny Lea Zekinsky (1879-1930) who was born in Swienciany in 1879 as the daughter of the teacher Moses (Pesach) Zekinsky and his wife Zirl Mosel. In Swienciany, the first three of their four children were born: Max (Samuel) (*1893), Klara (Chaja) (*1894) and Anna (Channa Eichle) (*1896). At the end of 1899, the Schers decided to leave their home and move to Würzburg together. In 1903, the youngest son Salomon (Moses) was born there, who later attended Oberrealschule (contemporary Röntgen-Gymnasium).
In the same year, the Schers opened a seasonal business for batch goods, rejected goods that were sold at very reduced prices. Only since the end of May 1907, the Scher family was officially registered in Bad Kissingen. During the summers, the Schers lived in Bad Kissingen, in the winters, they were in Würzburg where in 1905 Noah Scher opened a bazaar with “luxury fancy goods and batch goods” in Schönbornstrasse 7. In addition, he obviously attended markets and fairs to sell his goods. In 1910, Noah Scher got his naturalization as a Bavarian citizen and the right of making his home in Würzburg. In 1916, they obviously left for economic reasons and moved to Bad Kissingen for good, where they lived in Salinenstrasse 40 till April 1935.
Noah Scher’s wife Fanny already died in Würzburg in 1930. Therefore, her husband and his daughter Klara ran her shop in Bad Kissingen on their own until their leases for shop and apartment were recalled in 1935. “Therefore, we packed”, Klara Scher writes, “our personal belongings and the goods that were still in the shop and moved to Berlin to my brother who was married there. But we could stay in Berlin for only 10 weeks as we – firstly – ran out of money and – secondly – my father got so homesick for Bad Kissingen that he couldn’t stay in Berlin. Therefore, we returned to Bad Kissingen but weren’t allowed to open our shop again. That’s why we deposited our goods and a lot of our personal belongings, which didn’t fit in our new small apartment, in two rented rooms” (registration files of Bad Kissingen). As they needed the money, father and daughter were forced after their return to sell the furniture they didn’t really need piecemeal in order to provide for the most necessary things for living.
Four months after their return from Berlin, Noah Scher died.
References
Ausführungen weitgehend übernommen aus: H.-J. Beck, Kissingen war unsere Heimat, S.
Meldeunterlagen der Stadt Bad Kissingen
Biographische Datenbank Jüdisches Bad Kissingen
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