Julian Hirshfeld

Łódź, Poland

1907 - 1981

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Profile

Personal & Family

Name in US
Dr. Julian J. Hirschfeld

Name at Birth
Julek Herszfeld

Yiddish Name
Yehuda Herszfeld

Date of Birth

01/20/1907

Country of Birth
Poland

City of Birth

Łódź

Sibling(s)

Dorcia Herszfeld

Spouse(s)

Chaja (Helena) Hagasyner
Married 1930s and had one daughter.
Both murdered during Holocaust.

Frances (Franceska) Rosenblum
(07/26/1918 Opatów, Poland – 06/01/1999 Gastonia, NC)
Married 09/21/1946 in Brussels, Belgium

Children

Margaret Dorothy Herszfeld (Spouse: Maxime Velard)
(Born 08/10/1948 Jacksonville, FL)

Max Shalom Herszfeld (now Hershfeld) (Spouse: Nina)
(Born 10/14/1951 Valdese, NC)

Religious Identity (Prewar)
Orthodox Jewish

Religious Identity (Postwar)
Reform Jewish

Dates Lived in Alabama

1954-1972

Alabama City(s) of Residence
Decatur, AL

Date and City of Death
02/02/1981 Gastonia, NC

City of Burial / Cemetery
Gastonia, NC / Gaston Memorial Park

Holocaust

Ghetto(s) / Year(s)

Zawiercie Ghetto
(04/1940 – 06/1940)

Camp(s) / Year(s)

Auschwitz
(10/18/1943)
Tattoo No. 157668

Golleschau (sub-camp of Auschwitz)
(11/15/1943)

Auschwitz III/Buna
(01/18/1944)

Buchenwald
Prisoner No. 123133

“Stein” Holzen (Hecht) Escherhausen (sub-camp of Buchenwald)

Forced (Death) Marches

yes

Liberated By / Date

Buchenwald

Immigration & Postwar

Year / Ship to US / Arrival City
July 12, 1949 / SS Sobteski / New York City