Haberdashery - Hirsch Brothers

Leopold Heinrich Hirsch was born on January 15, 1876 in Ulm.His parents were Moritz Hirsch from Wankheim and Anna Angelica Hirsch,née Moos of Buchau.Leopold Heinrich Hirsch married in 1906 Frida Veile Moos,geb. August 27, 1885, daughter of Adolf Moos from Kappel and Friederike Regina Moos,née Einstein of Buchau.Leopold Heinrich Hirsch and Otto Abraham Hirsch ran the haberdashery shop M. & H. Hirsch at Hafengasse 8-10 in Ulm (the origin of the business goes back to Moritz and Heinrich Hirsch - father and uncle of Leopold Heinrich and Otto Abraham Hirsch, who together founded a clothing store in Ulm's Bahnhofstrasse).The couple had three children - Fritz Moritz, born on March 17, 1908, Hans, born on May 31, 1909, and Anneliese, born on January 3, 1921. Hans Hirsch died of an appendicitis at the age of 14 in 1923. With the help of Albert Einstein, Anneliese Hirsch managed to emigrate to the USA in August 1939. When the National Socialists came to power, the business suffered from the ever-increasing repression. Nevertheless, the Hirsch brothers succeeded in maintaining the company through export business. After the Night of Broken Glass on November 9, 1938, this was no longer possible and the business had to be closed down.Ludwig Heinrich and Frida Hirsch managed to escape in September 1940 on the Trans-Siberian Railway, despite the increasingly difficult conditions for emigration, and then on to San Francisco via Korea and Japan with the financial support of Albert Einstein.Only Fritz Hirsch, who worked for the law firm Ernst Moos, remained in Ulm and supported Jews willing to emigrate in their efforts to do so. In the so-called "Fabrikaktion" (factory action), in which the last Jews spared from the previous deportations were to be deported, Fritz Hirsch also received his deportation order to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Only with a ruse he could escape the deportation and managed after the war the jump to the USA