The Story of Prekmurje Jews
The fates of the Hiršl (Hirschl) family from Tešanovci, Slovenia subsumes the fates of the Prekmurje Jewish community. The family was tragically marked by an array of different fates characteristic of the destruction of the Prekmurje and European Jewry. The family story was told by our central informant, Mrs Erika Fürst.
The Hiršl family members we see on the photograph, their spouses and children were deported to concentration camps where they were killed (Rozalija and Judita Hiršl, Renata Hiršl, Jolanda Hiršl, Ilona Sonnenfeld, nee Hiršl, Micka Hiršl, her married surname unknown) or barely managed to escape (Terezija Fürst, nee Hiršl); they were hiding from the Nazis (Mirko Hiršl); they were sent to Hungarian army force labour units and labour camps (Nikolaj Hiršl; Ladislav Ebenšpanger, Irena Hiršl’s husband), to prisoner of war camps (Ladislav Hiršl) or died on the Death March (Irena Ebenšpanger, nee Hiršl).