San Antonio Survivors - David and Golda Scharff

David was born in Poland and served in the Polish Army. He was captured by the Germans and sent back to the ghetto at his hometown. The ghetto was emptied and he was sent to Auschwitz. From Auschwitz, he went to a slave labor camp. When near death, he requested to be sent back to Auschwitz. He was returned in a van with approximately 15 dead bodies. When he arrived, he was still alive and recovered enough to function again. As the Russians approached, he was on a death march and escaped. He hid in the countryside and survived by posing as a Polish peasant.
David and Golda met in the D.P. Camp after the war. Golda was born in Galicia. She was in the ghetto and worked as a servant at the S.S. Headquarters. A German officer took a liking to her and managed to have her hidden as a Catholic in a monastery until the end of the war. They were the only members of their respective families to survive.

Both David and Golda are deceased but, their daughter speaks to groups for the museum to tell their survival experiences as a Second Generation speaker.