Meijer Scharis

Meijer Scharis was born in Amsterdam on 26 December 1890 and a son of Lodewijk Scharis and Rika de Haas. He was a decorator and upholsterer by trade. On 6 August 1914, he married Grietje van West, a daughter of the florist Salomon van West and Betje Lelie, in Zaandam. When they lived at  Eerste Oosterparkstraat 136 in Amsterdam, the Scharis-van West couple had a daughter, Rika, who was born on 2 A…

Ik, Nike de Nooij, ben de kleindochter van Rika Scharis (geb. 2-4-1916). Als enige van haar directe familie heeft zij de Holocaust overleefd. Haar vader was Meijer Scharis. Haar moeder was Grietje van West ( geboren 13-7-1893  - overleden 2-12-1917) en haar stiefmoeder was Hendrika Scharis-Kiek.

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Te fate of the transports in general.

After the women and children were separated from the men upon the arrival of a transport at the Auschwitz station, the usual selections for employment took place. It must be assumed that in general, i.e. except in a number of exceptional cases, even among the direct Auschwitz transports in the Cosel period, only men were assigned for work and that women, as we…