Fredy Hirsch : von Aachen über Düsseldorf und Frankfurt am Main durch Theresienstadt nach Auschwitz-Birkenau : eine jüdische Biographie 1916-1944

A biography of Alfred (Fredy) Hirsch, born in 1916 in Aachen. He was active there as a leader of the Jewish scout movement from 1933, and later in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt. In 1935 he became a leader of Maccabi Hatzair in Czechoslovakia (first running a camp in Slovakia; from 1936-39 he was based in Brno). In 1939 he moved to Prague, where he organized illegal transports to Palestine in the framework of the Hehalutz movement. Between 1942-43 Hirsch was interned in Theresienstadt, where he organized educational programs for children. In September 1943, Hirsch was deported to Auschwitz, along with a group of 274 children. He managed to obtain a special block for them and to carry on with his educational and cultural programs. On 8 March 1944 almost all of the children were gassed; Hirsch committed suicide several hours before the children were murdered. Erste Auflage. 116 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm