Hirsch family collection

Identifier: irn715049
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2020 by Jacob, Roger and Thomas Fillion, the sons of Eva Hirsch.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a doll carried by Eva Hirsch when her family fled Germany via Switzerland and Portugal, arriving in the United States in 1939.

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Doll
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn715898
- English
- overall: Height: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) | Width: 9.900 inches (25.146 cm) | Depth: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Doll carried by Eva Hirsch when her family fled Germany via Switzerland and Portugal, arriving in the United States in 1939.
Hirsch family memoirs
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn715900
- English
- folders 2
- Updated 7 months ago
The collection contains two unpublished memoirs of Elisabeth Archenhold [donors' maternal great aunt] and Max Hirsch [donors' maternal great grandfather] that capture their families’ experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust in Germany. The memoir written by Max Hirsch in 1939 was translated from German by Arthur Hirsch, Max’s son, and later Geoffrey Fuchs. It chronicles the history of his father’s leather tanning business, includes a timeline of family events, and relays Hirsch’s time as a prisoner in Dachau. He describes the history of Lederwerke Sigmund Hirsch, which was founde...

Hirsch family collection

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Doll

Hirsch family memoirs