A new bridge across a canal in this city has been named in honor for a Jewish community leader tortured to death in the Mauthausen concentration camp.
The bridge bears the name of Otto Hirsch, a lawyer who served on various government commissions until Hitler came to power, and then accepted the post of executive chairman of the Reichsvertretung, the central organization of German Jews. In this post he struggled against the Nazis until his arrest and subsequent murder.
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