Our Family History
Otto-Albert Hirschmann[1]
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Name Otto-Albert Hirschmann Gender Male Person ID I2352 Rothschild_Bloom Last Modified 17 Jan 2015
Father Carl Hirschmann d. 1933 Mother Hedwig, b. 1881 Family ID F1663 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Fled Germany in 1934, went to Paris, studied economics, worked for the League of Nations. On the outbreak of war, volunteered for service in the French Army, until the fall of France in June of 1940. In September, through intervention by professors at the University of California and the Rockefeller Foundation, he got a visa as a political refugee. Worked in 1941 at the University of California with Professor Condliffe. [2]
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