Metadata: Estate of Herbert Herz
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- Archives of Contemporary History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv für Zeitgeschichte der ETH Zürich
- Postal address:
- Hirschengraben 62, CH-8092 Zurich
- Phone number:
- +41 44 632 40 03
- Web address:
- https://www.afz.ethz.ch/
- Email:
- afz@history.gess.ethz.ch
- Reference number:
- NL Herbert Herz
- Title:
- Estate of Herbert Herz
- Title (official language):
- Einzelbestand Herbert Herz
- Creator/accumulator:
- Herz, Herbert
- Date(s):
- 1939/2003
- Language:
- German
- French
- Extent:
- 0.4 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains correspondence and documents on the rescue stories and the honours of "Righteous Among the Nations” who helped Jews during the Holocaust. Most of the files are not complete. Other files are probably in Yad Vashem.
- Archival history:
- In 2006, through the mediation of Rolf Bloch, the Archives of Contemporary History (AfZ) received records relating to the work of Herbert Herz as a delegate of Yad Vashem. The "Righteous Among the Nations" department honours persons who saved Jews or helped Jews to flee during the National Socialist era. He initiated and organised some of these honours.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Herbert Herz was born in Augsburg on 7 May 1924 to Simon and Meta, née Eichenbrunner. In 1934, the family fled to Dijon; in 1942 Herz barely escaped deportation and joined the Résistance (FTP-MOI) in Grénoble in 1943. His brother Emanuel was murdered in Auschwitz after he was arrested while trying to enter Switzerland illegally. He was sent back to France by the Swiss authorities. In 1996, Herbert Herz was awarded the French Order of the Legion of Honour for his services. After studying engineering, he was employed at CERN in Geneva. Since 1986, Herbert Herz was regional delegate for Switzerland and Savoy for Yad Vashem, Department "Righteous Among the Nations". In memory of his brother, Herbert Herz did not take Swiss citizenship throughout his life. In 2007, he moved to Ferney-Voltaire, France. He died in 2016.
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Righteous Among the Nations
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid is available.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://onlinearchives.ethz.ch/
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2019
