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Theodore Rothschild

Holocaust Victim
Profession Director of Jewish orphanage in Esslingen (40 years)

Persecution

Ghetto Theresienstadt
Died in Theresienstadt

Notes

Head of the Jewish orphanage (Waisenhaus) in Esslingen for 40 years.
Kristallnacht (Nov 9, 1938): Orphanage was attacked. Rothschild completely collapsed witnessing destruction of his life's work.
Later died in concentration camp Theresienstadt.
Source: Margit Bernstein memoir (1963)
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