Niche Scherl née Zanger

Location 
Goltzstr. 35
District
Schöneberg
Stone was laid
20 April 2012
Born
11 October 1895 in Schmiedeburg (Galizien) / Nowy Żmigród
Deportation
on 27 November 1941 to Riga
Murdered
30 November 1941 in Riga
Niche Scherl was born on 11 October 1895 in Schmiedeburg (now Nowy Żmigród), the daughter of Pinkhas and Sara Zanger.
In 1918 she married Julius Scherl, a furniture dealer. They had three children: a son, Simson, born on 21 January 1920, and two daughters, Pia and Rita. They lived at Goltz Strasse 35, in the same building as Julius Scherl’s shop, where he sold antiques, rugs and pianos as well as furniture.
Niche Scherl was very health conscious. Every morning she did exercises in front of an open window. She rubbed special cream into her children’s skin to try and make their freckles disappear. She also washed her children’s hair with green tea for health reasons.
In the night of the pogroms, on 9-10 November 1938, SA gangs wrecked Julius Scherl’s furniture shop. He never recovered from this blow but died of a heart attack in December 1938. Niche Scherl and her 18-year-old son Simson kept the furniture business going.
The Scherls’ daughters Pia and Rita managed to emigrate to Palestine in 1939, probably with the Youth Aliyah. Pia Scherl, who is now known as Margalit, later married Louis Biegeleisen, born on 30 October 1916. Her sister Rita Scherl married Abraham Frank.
Niche Scherl and her son were forced to move out of Goltz Strasse and lived for a brief period at Winterfeldt Strasse 34.
On 27 November 1941 Niche and Simson Scherl were deported to Riga on the “7th transport”. They were murdered on arrival on 30 November 1941; it was the notorious Riga Bloody Sunday.