A memorial meeting for Dr. Otto Hirsch, the leader of the Jews in Germany, who was tortured to death in a Nazi concentration camp, held here last night in the Woburn House was addressed by Otto Schiff, Prof. Norman Bewitch and Dr. Kurt Alexander.
In eulogizing Dr. Hirsch, Otto Schiff, president of the German Refugee Committee in England, pointed out that Dr. Hirsch could have left Germany and would have saved himself from the Nazis, but preferred to carry on his duties as leader of German Jewry, and was thus murdered. “The only way to honor his memory is to carry on the relief work for German Jews which he began,” Mr. Schiff said.
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