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Georg Hirsch

Georg Hirsch was an acquaintance of Otto Frank.

Person

  • Georg Hirsch
  • Born on: May 29, 1902
  • Born in: Berlijn, Duitsland

Georg Hirsch was an acquaintance of Otto Frank and possibly also of Fritz Pfeffer. Hirsch came from a very assimilated family, but became a Zionist under the influence of General Ludendorff. During the First World War, the general ordered a count of the number of Jewish soldiers in the German army. Hirsch's brother was serving at the time.[1]

In 1924, he left for Palestine, where he worked on a citrus plantation that was guarded at night. Later he was employed by an import company in Haifa. Back in Berlin, he experienced the introduction and consequences of the Nuremberg Laws (1935). He left for Amsterdam in 1938 with his mother, who by then had been a widow for some time.[2]

There he married Berta Heller on 14 March 1940. He was a merchant and later worked at the emigration department of the Jewish Council.[3] Having lost his German nationality, he managed to obtain Haitian nationality.[4] He lived on Bernard Zweerskade in Amsterdam with Felix Mittwoch before Fritz Pfeffer moved in.[5]

In anticipation of an exchange to Palestine, Hirsch and his wife went into hiding. On 10 May 1944 they were arrested and taken to the SD. After a week in the detention house on Weteringschans they were deported to Westerbork.[6] Both were on the transport to Auschwitz on 3 September 1944.[7]

Otto Frank mentioned Georg Hirsch, with the address of Professor Heringa on Euterpestraat, in the notebook he kept from the liberation of Auschwitz.[8] It was at this address that Hirsch had lived and gone into hiding, and where he and his wife had agreed to meet again.[9] In 1950, he obtained Dutch nationality.[10]

Hirsch wrote an obituary in 1959 on the occasion of the death of Hanneli Pick-Goslar's uncle Hans Klee.[11]He was widowed by his wife's death on 15 October 1970.[12]

Source personal data.[3] Addresses: Berlin; Tel Aviv; Bernard Zweerskade 20-III; Amsterdam, Euterpestraat 173hs; Amsterdam, [----] Michelangelostraat 61-III, Amsterdam.[3]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Jakob Volker & Annet van der Voort, Anne Frank was niet alleen: levensgeschiedenissen van Duitse joden in Nederland, Amsterdam: Arbeiderspers, 1990, p. 40.
  2. ^ Volker & Van der Voort, Anne Frank was niet alleen, p. 42-43.
  3. a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart G. Hirsch.
  4. ^ Verslag der Handelingen van de Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal 1949 - 1950, Kamerstuknr. 1473, ondernr. 3.
  5. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Woningkaarten (toegangsnummer 5445): Woningkaart B. Zweerskade 20-III.
  6. ^ Volker & Van der Voort, Anne Frank was niet alleen, p. 43-44.
  7. ^ Nederlandse Rode Kruis (NRK), Bureau Oorlogsnazorg, inv. nr. 1066: transportlijst Westerbork – Auschwitz, 3 september 1944, volgnr. 63 en 64.
  8. ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Anne Frank Collectie, Otto Frank Archief, reg. code OFA_040: verslag 1945 (ongepagineerd), vierde bladzijde.
  9. ^ Volker & Van der Voort, Anne Frank was niet alleen, p. 47.
  10. ^ Handelingen Eerste Kamer, 1949 – 1950, p. 539 – 540.
  11. ^ “Hans Klee”, Nieuw Israelietisch Weekblad, 5 juni 1959.
  12. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart B. Heller (1905).