Fritz Hirsch family collection

Identifier: irn47536
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn47536

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 and 2014 by Edrie Cote and Irene Wagner.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a poster, a red box, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Fritz Hirsch, his wife, Hilda, and their sons Gerd Karl and Frank, and extended family members before and during the Holocaust in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States, before the family was deported to various concentration camps in Germany and Poland where they perished.

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Fritz Hirsch papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn180700
- English
- box oversize box oversize folder 1 1 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Contains documents, photographs and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Fritz Hirsch, a German Jewish theatre professional, his wife, Hilda and their sons Gerd Karl and Frank. Much of the collection concerns Fritz’s career as a performer and owner of a theatrical production company in Germany and the Netherlands, where he immigrated in 1928. Correspondence documents the extended family’s efforts in the United States to bring the Hirsch family out of Nazi-occupied Europe. Included are letters to consular officials from Fritz’s sister and brother-in-law Moritz and Emilie Eichtershe...
Box
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn546070
- English
- overall: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Depth: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Red box in which series of handwritten 19th century notes were originally housed.
Pencil self-portrait
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn560152
- English
- pictorial area: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Pencil on paper self-portrait by Fritz Hirsch, dated 30 September 1940.
Poster for a Swedish film featuring German Jewish actor Fritz Hirsch
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn610221
- English
- 1924
- overall: Height: 36.000 inches (91.44 cm) | Width: 24.250 inches (61.595 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Poster for film titled "Tre Man Pa Aventyr", in which Fritz Hirsch appeared. Fritz Hirsch was a German Jewish actor and the owner of a theatrical production company in Germany and the Netherlands, where he immigrated in 1928. Fritz was deported to Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen, and Gusen concentration camps in Austria where he was killed on June 10, 1942.

Fritz Hirsch family collection

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Fritz Hirsch papers

Box

Pencil self-portrait

Poster for a Swedish film featuring German Jewish actor Fritz Hirsch