The Protestant Assistance Association announced plans today to build a Home for the Aged in West Berlin exclusively for person persecuted for racial reasons by the Nazi regime.
Theodor Heuss, president of the West German Republic, and Dr. Eugen Gerstenmair, president of the Bonn Bundestag, each contributed a room for the projected Home. The room contributed by President Heuss will bear the name of Otto Hirsch, one-time president of the Union of Jews in Germany, who was murdered in the Mauthausen concentration camp.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
