Else Hirsch: Difference between revisions

'''Else Hirsch''' (29 July 1889 – 1942 or 1943) was a [[Jewish]] teacher in [[Bochum]], Germany, and a member of the [[German Resistance]] against the [[Third Reich]]. She organized transports of Jewish children to the Netherlands and England, saving them from Nazi deportation to [[concentration camps]] and death. Hirsch perished in the [[Riga Ghetto]], at the age of 53 or 54.

 

 

==Legacy==

Streets in Bochum and [[Bad Lausick]] are named after her.<ref>[https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Else-Hirsch-Stra%C3%9Fe,+Bochum,+Deutschland&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=61.323728,87.714844&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Else-Hirsch-Stra%C3%9Fe,+Wiemelhausen+44789+Bochum,+Nordrhein-Westfalen,+Germany&z=16 Map link to Else-Hirsch-Straße, 44789 Bochum, Germany] Google Maps. Retrieved 24 April 2010</ref><ref>[https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Else-Hirsch-Stra%C3%9Fe,+Bad+Lausick,+Deutschland&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=61.323728,87.714844&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Else-Hirsch-Stra%C3%9Fe,+04651+Bad+Lausick,+Leipzig,+Sachsen,+Germany&z=16 Map link to Else-Hirsch-Straße, 04651 Bad Lausick, Germany] Google Maps. Retrieved 24 April 2010</ref>

 

 

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