Metadata: Estate of Mosi 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 Mosi Herz
- Title:
- Estate of Mosi Herz
- Title (official language):
- Einzelbestand Mosi Herz
- Creator/accumulator:
- Herz, Mosi
- Date(s):
- 1941/1949
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 0.03 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection mainly contains documents concerning the six children's homes in Switzerland that were established by Mosi Herz.
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred to the Archives of Contemporary History (AfZ) in 2000.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Mosi Herz, head of refugee aid of Agudat Israel Zurich and businessman, was born on 12 April 1911 in Lucerne. He attended schools in Lucerne and from 1929 worked for Agudat Israel. During the early 1930s, he studied at the Yeshiva Montreux (Rabbi E Botschko) and in Jewish schools in Romania and Hungary. He opened six children's homes throughout Switzerland (Bex les Bains VD, Engelberg OW (2), Montreux VD (Yeshiva), Morcote TI, Schwendibach BE) by cooperating with the Swiss Relief Organisation for Children of Emigrants (Schweizer Hilfswerk für Emigrantenkinder, SHEK) (Nettie Sutro), JOINT (Saly Mayer) and others. He supported Orthodox Jews in camps, especially through kosher meat supply.
- Access points: locations:
- Switzerland
- Subject terms:
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- Children
- Welfare
- Access, restrictions:
- Partially restricted. Subject to application.
- 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
