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Meyerovich Hirsch (1900)

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SurnameMeyerovich
NameHirsch
Birth year1900
Birth month9
Birth day14
Birth placeLiepāja
SexM

Meyerovich (Meerowitsch) Hirsch (14 September 1900, Liepāja — ?) — educator.

In 1920 Hirsh Meyerovich graduated from a German secondary school in Liepāja. In 1930 he completed the Mechanical Faculty of the University of Latvia, receiving a diploma as an electrical engineer. From 1926 until the summer of 1934 he worked in Riga as an acting teacher at the Jewish private school “Torah ve-Derekh Eretz” (“Torah and the Way to the Homeland”).

In September 1934 he was appointed acting inspector of the Municipal Jewish Gymnasium; from 1 December 1936 he served as acting director of the Municipal Jewish Gymnasium. In August 1940 he was dismissed. In 1936, according to the Teachers’ Certification Commission of the Ministry of Education, he received official certification as a fully qualified teacher.

His wife was Malka (born 1905); his daughters were Soro (born 1930) and Lea (born 1933). He may have perished in the Riga Ghetto.