Stamp dealer - Julius Hirsch

Julius Hirsch was born on April 11, 1872 in Berlin and was married to Ida Hirsch, née Arnfeld, born on May 2, 1872 in Bad Polzin (Pomerania). He was a fund broker and stamp dealer and initially ran a mail-order stamp business (without a store) at Burgstrasse 27. After moving out of Burgstrasse, Julius Hirsch took over a store at Kurfürstendamm 130 and had the stamp business with the stamp and art divisions entered in the Berlin commercial register in 1938. After the November pogrom of 1938, the closure of Jewish retail stores was enforced on January 1, 1939. Julius Hirsch's new business was also affected. It was liquidated. Julius Hirsch was deported to Theresienstadt on August 13, 1942 and from there sent to his death in Treblinka on September 26, 1942. His wife Ida Hirsch and her widowed sister Alma Scheer suffered the same fate. Their brother-in-law Julius Arnfeld, who was deported with them, managed to survive. The tragic fate of Julius and Ida Hirsch, née Arnfeld, Alma Scheer, née Arnfeld, and Julius Arnfeld is commemorated by four stumbling stones laid at Martin-Luther-Str. 84 in Berlin-Schouml;neberg.