Born in Vienna, Austria, he fled the Holocaust, immigrating to New York in 1941.
Mr. Fischer was pre-deceased by his wife Marilyn in 2000. He is survived by his three sons and two daughters-in-law, Frank & Jacqueline Fischer of Farmingdale, Clifford and Debra Fischer of Howell, and Glenn Fischer of Freehold, his daughter and son-in-law, Penny & Edward Otte of Allentown, his sister Helga Cohen of Tamarack, FL, and his 5 grandchildren, Daniel, Kimberly, Wesley, Alana & Joshua.
Services will be held at 1:00pm on Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at Bloomfield-Cooper Jewish Chapels in Manalapan. Interment will follow at Congregation Agudath Achim Cemetery in Freehold. Memorial Donations may be made to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Pl, SW, Washington DC 20024 or www.ushmm.org