Memorial Alfred Hirsch

This monument is in memory of German Jewish Zionist youth leader Alfred Hirsch. He was deported to Theresienstadt in December 1941 where he took care of the Jewish children who were imprisoned here. He made sure that they kept themselves clean, that they received education and performed work in the camp, such as gardening. In this way they had to maintain their self-respect under the difficult conditions. In September 1943, he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he supervised the children's block in the 'family camp'. He died here on March 8, 1944, probably by suicide.

The plaque hangs on the garden side of the ghetto museum.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Koos Winkelman