Does anyone, please, have professional experience of #FindAGrave ?
Someone set up a Findagrave record for Hirsch Hans Hirschfeld with correct date of birth but all else unknown. A quick search on Wiki shows his career as a distinguished German Jewish Haematologist who was arrested by the Nazis then transported to Theresienstadt and murdered in 1944.
Something feels really wrong here.
I've seen zero detail F'grave records set up from #FreeBMD before.
This feels bad.
Why does it feel wrong? If Hans was murdered in the Holocaust and exact date of death, and location of cremains or burial are unknown, this may be an acceptable entry.
Does the creator of this memorial help allay your concerns?
I don't know anything about the organization and if I research it before replying, I'll likely forget to reply.
Sue ... I am so grateful to you for this screenshot. Yes. I feel so much better now knowing it was part of an IWG project.
My earlier fear/anguish/irritation was that the record had been created flippantly, like the example of going through FreeBMD setting up records saying "John Smith died March 19XX and (would have been) buried in Birmingham".
Thank you.
Yes, thank you ... Your expression "memorial hoarder" is one I hadn't heard but is precisely what I mean. With the range of unexpected emotions that come from that practice.
RobertJackson
SueB