It is told about Freddy Hirsch Resilience, resistance, education during the Shoah

Abstract

In the blanket of fog that separates us from the historical experience of the Shoha, there are many empty spaces, stories not told or only touched upon, characters whose human, ethical, pedagogical substance risks being dissolved in the temporal distance, in the oblivion, or in the short circuits of historical memory. Or stories that recur within the narratives of certain witnesses, waiting to be pulled out of the archives of memory to re-emerge, receive attention and be systematized. One of these is that of Freddy Hirsch, who works in the inferno of the Shoah to provide children and adolescents with an educational care projected to the dignity of existence and hope. The aim of this work is to trace in memorial (mostly in English and oral), the salient features of his work, the forms of memories within which his name resounds, the specifics of a work conducted in extreme conditions to promote the resilience of his children and human and cultural resistance: perhaps a "blurred photo" emerges, but also an attempt that could contribute to reestablish "fortune" to a story inordinately placed in the in historical memory.