Hirsh Abelevitz was born in Widze, Poland, 1921 to Yisrael and Rakhel. He was single. Prior to WWII he lived in Widze, Poland. During the war he was in Kloga, Estonia (USSR). Hirsh survived the Shoah.
Jews deported to or imprisoned in camps, ghettos or forced labor frameworks, who were in hiding, in clandestinity or resistance formations, or suffered relentless persecution under antisemitic legislation in territories controlled by the Nazis or their allies, and were alive by the end of 1945 are considered Shoah survivors.