Henry Sharp collection

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Henry Sharp collection 

folder 1 

The Henry Sharp papers consist of identification and registration papers documenting Sharp’s immediate post-war life as a Holocaust survivor in liberated Germany. The collection also includes photographs of Buchenwald after liberation. 

The Henry Sharp papers are arranged as a single file. 

Henry Sharp (1925-2011) was born Henry Scharf in Krakow, Poland on September 23, 1925. He was forced into the Krakow ghetto in 1942 and survived multiple concentration camps including Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jawiszowice, Buchenwald, and Ohrdruf. While in Buchenwald he changed his name to Henry Ostrowski hoping that he would receive better treatment with a Polish name. He was liberated in April 1945 at Buchenwald. His parents Jonas and Paula Scharf (born Pesla Gumplowicz) and his brother Marcel Scharf perished in the camps.