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Uri Hirschmann papers

Document | Accession Number: 2008.305.1

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

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
Topical Term: Jews--Germany--Frankfurt am Main.
Fasts and feasts--Judaism.
Jewish soldiers--Germany--20th century.
Labor Zionism--Germany.
Kibbutzim.
Geographic Name: Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
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.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: Restrictions on use. Donor retains copyright for this collection.
: Record last modified: 2017-12-19 17:02:03
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