Else Hirsch

Else Hirsch ( born July 29, 1889 in Biitzow, Schwerin; † around 1943 in the Riga ghetto ) was a Jewish teacher in Bochum, which helped organize abroad in the period of National Socialism Kindertransport.

Life

Else Hirsch came in 1927 from Berlin to Bochum to take a teaching job at the Jewish school in Bochum. She also worked at the Jewish Women's Association and gave Hebrew lessons for girls.

In October 1937 she took part in an English training in the Reich Association of German Jews in Berlin to teach in Bochum potential emigrants in English can. In June 1938, she also traveled to Palestine, presumably to establish contact with the Child and Youth Aliyah.

After Kristallnacht in November 1938, when the synagogue in Bochum was the victim of arson, the Jewish elementary school is compulsory for all Jewish students had become. Else Hirsch began in consultation with the Jewish Reichsvertretung compile transport for children and young people. Between December 1938 and August 1939, she organized ten transports of children in the Netherlands and England.

She herself remained as the only Jewish teacher in the backward students until the school was closed in September 1941. End of January 1942 Else Hirsch was deported along with some of her students the Riga ghetto. In the ghetto Else Hirsch is maintained even after testimony of a surviving student in a building in the short term classes for children and have organized meals for elderly and vulnerable people. She came in the Holocaust.

It is thanks to that many young Jews from Bochum have survived the Holocaust. In Bochum, a street was named after Else Hirsch.