Josef Fischer

1871–1949 (age 78)

Biography

Josef Fischer, born in 1871, devoted himself to preserving the intimate histories of families and individuals, ensuring that the textures of daily life in Copenhagen lived on in careful records and personal narratives.

He approached each account with a historian’s rigor and a friend’s compassion, so that future generations might understand their roots; his memory rests in the Jewish Western Cemetery where he lies among the community he served.

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