Curt Hirschberg was a cinema proprietor. Together with his twin brother, he owned a number of cinemas, variety theatres and a concert-hall in their home town of Breslau between 1918 and the mid-1930s. When the Nazis came to power, Curt and his brother fled to the Netherlands. Within a few years they succeeded in building up a new business. They called it ‘Gebroeders Hirschberg Hollandsche Bioscoopexploitatie’, and it included cinemas in The Hague, Heerlen, Hoensbroek and Helmond. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Curt and his brother lost their cinemas again. Curt died in Blechhammer camp in 1943. His brother survived the war.
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Curt (Bas) Hirschberg is mentioned in the diary that Ernst Ruschkewitz kept during his time in a series of concentration camps. The diary was preserved in the archive of the Jewish community in Würzburg. You can read excerpts from the diary (in Dutch) on the website Tweede Wereldoorlogervaringen van de familie Ruschkewitz.
This person is commemorated on a memorial in Valkenburg. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.