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03/26/1897
Nordhausen
Helene Hirsch and Phillipp Schoenberger
Ilse Fuchs
(1905 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg – 1997 Birmingham)
Married March 18, 1930 in Luxembourg
Was chief rabbi in Aachen, Germany (1926-1938).
Before World War II he was a widely published poet, scholar, and lecturer. He performed the marriage ceremony of the parents of Anne Frank.
On November 9, 1938 (Kristallnacht), he saw his synagogue burned to the ground by the Nazis.
In the US, his chief pulpit was in Chicago, but he later served Temple Mishkan Israel in Selma, AL. Lived in Birmingham since his retirement in 1960.
“We the Six Million Murdered Speak,” a poem by Rabbi Davin Schoenberger, as read by Brian Kurlander (3:22).
