Fritz Hirsch family collection

• 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...

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.