hirschfeld hans hermann (1 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. 4to. (8.5 x 11"). 174p. plus 3p. of geneaology at the rear of the volume. Laid in is the announcement of Hirschfeld's funeral and Xerox copies of two obituaries. Cream colored wrappers printed in black with a black and white photo of Hirschfeld on the front wrapper and bound with a black plastic comb. No noticeable wear to the extremities, wrappers clean and bright, corners square and flat, plastic comb binding intact, else fine with no internal markings. Hans Hermann Hirschfeld [1909-1995, sometime written Hermann H. Hirschfeld] was born in 1909 and raised in Berlin where he earned a degree in education from Friedrich-Wilhelm University in 1933. A teacher, he met his future wife Inge while working at a school for Jewish students and they married in 1941. In 1943, the young couple was sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. After 15 months, they were separated and sent to Auschwitzs, each unaware of the other's fate. After their liberation, they were miraculously reunited at a friend's home. In 1947 they immigrated to the United States, settling in San Francisco. Hirschfeld became president of Congregation B'nai Emunah, a synagogue for Jewish immigrants. Hirschfeld went two Golden Gate University in order to become a certified public accountant and eventually opened his own practice on Union Square. He rose through the ranks of the San Francisco B'nai B'rith Lodge No. 21 serving as a president and for many years as its financial secretary. Unlike many holocaust survivors who only began talking about their horrific experience in later years, Hermann and Inge spoke freely of the concentration camps. Hermann was careful to distinguish between Nazis and ordinary Germans. " He would always say he and my mother survived because of the many good and non-Jewish Germans who gave them extra rations and hid their precious belongings," his son Bob Hirschfeld said. This is a comprehensive accounting of Hermann Hirschfeld's life and includes information about his family members, his experiences in the concentration camps, as well as his experiences as a leader of the Jewish community is San Francisco. At the rear of the volume is a geological information about the family of Ascher and Mathilde Gutfeld and the children of Hermann and Rosalie Hirschfeld. This is a rare biography of a holocaust survivor and a leader in the Jewish community in San Francisco.