"At Auschwitz, I worked behind the women’s camp we had to cut grass bricks. I wanted to see my mother once more and I had brought her my bread ration. In fact, we managed to exchange a few words. But I couldn’t give her my bread. She gave me her ration instead. It was the last time I saw my mother"
Born in Békéscsaba, Hungary, in 1929, Gabor Hirsch was deported to Auschwitz at the age of 15. His mother Ella was 48 years old when she was killed in Stutthof. After his liberation, he went to Budapest to earn a high school diploma. In 1956, during the Hungarian uprising, he emigrated to Switzerland via Austria; he studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and became an electrical engineer. Gabor Hirsch is a widower, has two sons and two grandchildren.