Georges Hirsch
Georges Hirsch (22 February 1895 – 12 May 1974)[1] was a French theater director, a member of the French Resistance, and municipal councillor of Paris.
He was a director of the
Life
Hirsch was born in the
Over and over again, Darquier opposes within the Council itself with his Jewish colleagues on the definition of what is being "French". Reactionary tradition versus Republican tradition. Maurice Hirschovitz, Georges Hirsch, Raphaël Schneid, all three have at one time or another claimed that they were "more French" than him. At the end of the session [of June 4, 1936], he [Darquier de Pellepoix] waited in the Council's changing rooms for the "dirty little Jew" in question, Georges Hirsch, and committed an attack on him that quickly turned into a brawl between colleagues.[3]
Re-elected from 1944 to 1945, then from 1959 to 1965, he was appointed head of the
Hirsh died in the 16th arrondissement of Paris in 1974 and was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (89th division).
References
- ^ Birth certificate number 572 of February 24, 1895 Archived February 24, 2011, at the Wayback Machine with marginal mention of death, online on the archives de Paris website.
- ^ "GEORGES HIRSCH (1895-1974) - Encyclopædia Universalis". www.universalis.fr. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
- ^ Laurent Joly, « Darquier de Pellepoix, “champion” des Antisémites Français (1936-1939) » on memorialdelashoah.org.
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