deaths
March 8, 1944
Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (born 1916)
Fredy Hirsch
Alfred Hirsch was a German-Jewish athlete, sports teacher and Zionist youth movement leader, notable for helping thousands of Jewish children during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in Prague, Theresienstadt concentration camp, and Auschwitz. Hirsch was the deputy supervisor of children at Theresienstadt and the supervisor of the children's block at the Theresienstadt family camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
March 8
March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 298 days remain until the end of the year.