Fredy Hirsch

Fredy Hirsch

  • Birthday: 1916-02-11
  • Deathday: 1944-03-08
  • Place of birth: Aachen, Germany

Biography

Alfred "Fredy" Hirsch is inseparably connected with the education of children and young people in the Terezín ghetto, and finally in the „family camp“ at Auschwitz/Birkenau. In particular, the „children's block,“ established on Hirsch's initiative in the BIIb section of the Birkenau camp, was a remarkable attempt to create a small oasis within the death camp. Its main purpose was to ensure that Auschwitz's youngest prisoners had, at least for a short while, a more tolerable environment in which they would be isolated from the tragic reality around them.

Filmography

Heaven in Auschwitz

2016

As archive

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