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Fritz Hirschfeld

Fritz Hirschfeld (22 October 1886 in Berlin – 11 October 1944 in Auschwitz) was a German jurist of Jewish descent, a judge in Potsdam, a refugee in the Netherlands, interned in the Westerbork transit camp and in the Theresienstadt concentration camp and murdered in the Auschwitz extermination camp. After his conversion he also worked as a translator and author.[1]

In March 2019, a Stolperstein (stumbling stone) for Fritz Hirschfeld was laid in Nieuwkuijk in the Netherlands on the site of the St. Gertrudisgesticht[2] which was demolished in 1969. Another stumbling stone has been in place since December 2019 in Potsdam, Griebnitzstraße 8.[3] A hall in the Potsdam Regional Court has been named after him.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Fritz Hirschfeld". Joods Monument (in Dutch). Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  2. ^ "DPG Media Privacy Gate". myprivacy.dpgmedia.nl. Retrieved 26 February 2021.,
  3. ^ "Sechs neue Stolpersteine gegen das Vergessen". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  4. ^ "Stolperstein für Potsdamer Juristen verlegt". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). Retrieved 26 February 2021.