Footballer. Born in Achern, Germany. He was the first Jewish player in the German national football team, and played in the 1912 Olympic Games. He fought in the German Army in WW1, and was decorated with the Iron Cross. In 1943 he was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp where he died.
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Julius Hirsch
This mural depicts 3 football players: one was a PoW held in Auschwitz, where...
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
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Protestant martyr burned at Smithfield. The first of the 'Marian Martyrs'.
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From our Picture Source we learn that Madeleine Léonie Zoé Damerment was born on 11 November 1917 at Tortefontaine, Pas-de-Calais, France, the second of the three daughters of Charles Eugène Cyrill...
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