Life
Fisch was born into a Jewish family in Leipzig, Germany, and emigrated to America in 1925. Upon his arrival, he went to live with the family of Herman Kirsten, his former boss back in Germany, and continued to work in the fur trade as a cutter. He lived in rented rooms together with fellow German immigrants, Karl Henkel, Gerta Henkel and Henry Uhlig. Sometimes, he earned as much as sixty to eighty dollars a week.
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