Hirschler Rene

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn556058
• English
• 1940-1952
• 24 digital files, PDF
• Updated 6 months ago

Records of the Jewish Community of Vichy related to various activities of the Jewish community in France during and after the World War II. Records include correspondence with the General Union of Jews of France (Union générale des israélites de France, UGIF), lists of deportees, missing persons information and requests, a book of marriages of the French Central Consistory at the Vichy Synagogue, 1939-1943, the original bill of the Statutes of the Union of Israeli Cultural Associations of France and Algeria dated 1909; correspondence between the State police and the Chief Rabbi of France...

1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5220262
• English, Hebrew
• Handwritten copy xerox 55 pages/frames
• Updated 5 years ago

Rabbi Rene Hirschler, born in Marseilles, France, 1905; details regarding his activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II Serves as the Chief Rabbi of Strasbourg; activities as Rabbi for the inmates of the camps in southern France; life in Marseilles including arrest with his wife, 23 December 1943; deportation to prison in Saint Pierre; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz; his wife's death in Auschwitz; his death in Block 2 (the clinic) in Ebensee; awarded the Medaille de la Resistance. Also in the file: -Testimonies regarding Rabbi and Ms. Hirschler; - Arti...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn90259
• English
• 1943
• 5,568 digital images, JPEG 4 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 6 months ago

The papers of René Hirschler consist of carbon copies of outgoing correspondence from the office of the chief chaplain. Included are letters to the network of regional chaplains and auxiliary chaplains, individuals interned in internment camps, hospitals, in the Groupements de Travailleurs Etrangers (foreign labor battalions). Also included are letters to individuals involved in the effort to provide assistance to foreign Jews in France during World War II; to Vichy government officials and to Jewish and non Jewish organizations. The collection is fragmentary and covers only the last nine m...

1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5247496
• English, Hebrew
• xerox 23 pages/frames
• Updated 5 years ago

Simone (Levy) Hirschler, born in Mulhouse, France, 1911; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in Marseilles with her husband, Rabbi Rene Hirschler; her husband's activities as Chief Rabbi of the camps in France; rescue activities with her husband; arrested by the Gestapo with her husband, 23 December 1943; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz; perishes in Auschwitz with her husband; awarded the Croix de Guerre. In the file: - Photograph of Simone Hirschler; - Documents; - Personal documents; - Testimonies.