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Uri Hirschmann papers

Document | Accession Number: 2008.305.1

The Uri Hirschmann papers include a photo album, travel pass, and Palestinian naturalization certificate documenting Hirschmann’s family in Frankfurt am Main before the war and his relocation to Palestine. Photographs depict Hirschmann’s family, their home, bar mitzvah and Purim celebrations, and Hirschmann at a Hachschara camp in Germany, and a Youth Aliyah camp and a kibbutz in Palestine.

Date
inclusive:  circa 1900-1981
Language
Hebrew
German
English
Arabic
Genre/Form
Photographs.
Extent
4 folders
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Uri Hirschmann

About This Document

Document Creator
Uri Hirschmann
Biography
Uri Hirschmann was born Helmut Martin Hirschmann in 1922 in Frankfurt am Main to Lazarus Hirschmann (1889-1938) and Hedwig Hirschmann (1894-approximatley 1941). Lazarus Hirschmann was a World War I veteran and owned a writing materials wholesale business. Uri left Germany for Palestine in March 1939, settled on a kibbutz, and married Zahava Shapira. His sister Margot (b. 1925) left in April on a Kindertransport to England, immigrated to the United States in 1944, and married Charles David Lobree. His mother perished in the Holocaust, but the circumstances are unknown. His grandmother Emma Scheuer (1866-approximatley 1942) was deported from Frankfurt in August 1942 to Theresienstadt, transferred in September to Maly Trostinec, and perished.
System of Arrangement
The Uri Hirschmann papers are arranged as a single series: I. Uri Hirschmann papers, approximately 1900-1981

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Holder of Originals
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
Uri Hirschmann donated the Uri Hirschmann papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2008.
Funding Note
The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
Restrictions on use. Donor retains copyright for this collection.
 
Record last modified: 2020-10-07 13:23:14
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