Fritz Hirschfeld
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Fritz Hirschfeld (22 October 1886 in Berlin – 11 October 1944 in Auschwitz) was a German jurist of Jewish descent, a judge in Potsdam, a refugee in the Netherlands, interned in the Westerbork transit camp and in the Theresienstadt concentration camp and murdered in the Auschwitz extermination camp. After his conversion he also worked as a translator and author.[1]
In March 2019, a Stolperstein (stumbling stone) for Fritz Hirschfeld was laid in Nieuwkuijk in the Netherlands on the site of the St. Gertrudisgesticht,[2] which was demolished in 1969. Another stumbling stone has been in place since December 2019 in Potsdam, Griebnitzstraße 8.[3] A hall in the Potsdam Regional Court has been named after him.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Fritz Hirschfeld". Joods Monument (in Dutch). 22 October 1886. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ Buijs, Gert-Jan (12 March 2019). "Opdat wij niet vergeten; De Stolpersteine-man was hier". Brabants Dagblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 6 November 2023.
- ^ "Sechs neue Stolpersteine gegen das Vergessen". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ "Stolperstein für Potsdamer Juristen verlegt". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). Retrieved 26 February 2021.
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