The unknown hero who saved children at Auschwitz.

This picture shows Alfred Fredy Hirsch.
He was born in 1916 and died 1944 (age 28)

Fredy was a German Jewish athlete, sports teacher and Zionist youth movemente leader, notable for helping thousands of Jewish children during the German occupation of czechoslovakia in Prague,Theresienstadt concentration camp and Auschwitz. Hirsch was the deputy supervisor of children at Theresienstadt and the supervisor of the children's block at the Theresienstadt familia camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau.


Because of his German extraction, charisma, and careful appearance, he was able to convince SS guards to grant privileges to the children, including exemptions from deportation and extra rations, which saved their lives at least temporarily. Hirsch and his assistants maintained clandestine education under the difficult circumstances. Hirsch's insistence on exercise, discipline, and strict hygiene reduced death rates among the children.

The family camp was due to be liquidated on 8 March 1944; Hirsch's popularity made him a natural leader for an uprising. According to some accounts, he committed suicide in order not to have to witness the deaths of his charges; alternately, he was poisoned by Jewish doctors who would have been killed if an uprising had broken out.


In 2008 a "stolperstein" was laid outside Hirschs childhood home at 7 Richardstrasse in Aachen.



I know that this entire theme has not that much to do with the historical splendour theme and beutiful princess ,but I think it is important to know this guy who saved lots of child at Auschwitz.

I hope you like that skin. Its the first time I made one of this kind.
And I am sorry for my bad English, I am not a native English speaker ^^